[dixie_land]

Exactly, somethings should've just been left ASCII. The push to use Unicode in many components for "inclusiveness" are simply political.

[ptx]

Or perhaps KOI-7 N1, another 7-bit text encoding [0]. The Cyrillic alphabet should be good enough for anyone. As you say, no need to let Americans use their native alphabet just to feel included.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-7