Note that this site uses UTF-8. So there is no point in sticking to Windows-1252 in the mistaken notion that it may be better supported. That said, ASCII has the advantage of being on most keyboards and of being most familiar to people. It’s also a subset of UTF-8 that can be written as single 8-bit characters.
If that means that, essentially, all of Unicode would be open for use on all systems, then that opens up many more possibilities (for the "special custom codes").
My concern was support on people's systems at home; I expect that there's still a small (but, admittedly, rapidly shrinking) percentage of systems that support ANSI but not Unicode.
If that means that, essentially, all of Unicode would be open for use on all systems, then that opens up many more possibilities (for the "special custom codes").
My concern was support on people's systems at home; I expect that there's still a small (but, admittedly, rapidly shrinking) percentage of systems that support ANSI but not Unicode.