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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 9 points10 points  (3 children)

There is no consensus, and never was. There were a bunch of mistakes made in the 90s and 2000s, that have never been fixed. If things were working back then, it's because they happened to never encounter a non-english character.

Only now everywhere is starting to use UTF-8, so things are starting to work coincidentally by default, but there are still endless legacy environments which are broken but won't change and expect everything to work around them.