Why isn’t UTF-8 allowed as the “ANSI” code page?
The “ANSI” codepage is basically legacy: Windows 9X era. All modern software should be Unicode (that is, UTF-16) based anyway. Basically, when the Ansi code page stuff was originally designed, UTF-8 wasn’t even invented and so support for multi-byte encodings was rather haphazard (i.e. most Ansi code pages are single byte, with the exception of … Read more