ASCII doesn't exist as such.
Characters are encoded in one byte and ascii leaves the highest 128 characters undefined. They are interpreted system-wise, depends on the locale and user settings.
Characters are encoded in one byte and ascii leaves the highest 128 characters undefined. They are interpreted system-wise, depends on the locale and user settings.
>>> b"abc\xf0".decode("ascii")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 3
But if the changelog is truthful, and the change is from ASCII to UTF-8, things should not break - at least not to any great extent.