In article ,
Wolf K wrote:

On 2018-01-06 12:16, Paul Magnussen wrote:
Andre G. Isaak wrote:

Plus both windows and Macs have been using unicode for some time now
so ASCII isn't really relevant.

How long, exactly?Â* Anybody know?

The reason I ask is that I often have to deal with legacy files (and
software), so it would be useful to know the cut-off point(s).

Paul Magnussen

ASCII may no longer be the "preferred" character set, but it's still
used here and there. IOW, there is no "cutoff date". Best to assume that
ASCII lurks in the nooks and crannies of some software until proven
otherwise.

Anything written in ASCII is valid UTF-8, so it isn't going to pose any
problems for modern operating systems.

Andre

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