AFAIK, UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII. UTF-16 is not. That's why
Well, with 7-bit ASCII - yes. With 8-bit "extended ASCII", whatever that means - not exactly. You can have 8-bit strings that aren't valid UTF-8 and can't be translated to UTF-8 without specifying the encoding (iso-889-1 or something like that).
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