Nobody talks in this case about UTF-8. Even *ANSIstrings* in there
native meaning can contain multi byte chars, there are *multi byte* ansi
char sets.
If there is a widely used multi-byte ANSI encoding, why so we need
Unicode ?
IMHO the introduction of Unicode has been necessary as (like you
suggested) multi-byte ANSI encoding was commonly ignored nearly
completely and there never has been _compiler_ support for them. Thus
IMHO it's quite appropriate to only call "ANSI" only the 1-Byte ANSI
code versions (to be able to tell them technically from Unicode, the
compiler support of which is discussed right here).
-Michael
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