@maple I mean, a not-insignificant number of English-language developers still use ASCII. The only difference is that, back when the Unicode Consortium was formed, we USAians decided we were so important that the first 128 codepoints should just be ASCII, any other possible choice for how to arrange Unicode be damned. Because why should *we* have to reencode *our* documents? No, no, no. We'll leave that for the *rest* of the world to do.