Yikes, not a good look, my dude. Even Unicode is such a vadt oversimplification of the complexities of digitally encoding human writing. I say go the other way: make all text carry encoding info, including strings in programming languages (which would ideally incorporate encoding as part of their type, and forbid combining strings of different encodings without explicit conversion to a target encoding). Yes, it's more complicated. So is memory-safe static object lifetime management, and we considered that a W and worth the trouble.