There are still documents on the internet that use ASCII encoding, and while English speaking users doesn't have this problem, in some countries there were several different encoding systems used back in the past. While most believe that web content is resilient and we will still be able to browse old websites forever, recent web browser developments show otherwise. Please do not remove working features, especially if they have no effect on security or privacy.
> Please do not remove working features, especially if they have no effect on security or privacy.
As it happens, part of what made the menu back end cause other changes to take more effort than they should have taken on their face were the security aspects of the menu in Firefox.
> There are still documents on the internet that use ASCII encoding
Probably a great many because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, and afaict is common for English when the site doesn't use more sophisticated typography such as curly quotes, em dashes, etc.
