In message 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? Anybody know?

OS X had Unicode from the beginning. It was added to the old Mac OS in
8.1 or 8.5, IIRC.

No idea when Windows added it, but I don't think it was there in XP.
They did have support for UTF-16 (WHY?!?!) in Windows 2000. I also know
that Windows 7 does not support UTF-8 and I am reasonably sure that
Windows 10 is still using the vastly inferior UTF-16, but don't know if
UTF-8 is possible.

(Microsoft still claims UTF-16 is the most common Unicode encoding,
which is a flat out lie)

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