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EDIT: Deleted before I get even more downvotes.

On a general note, I think it's time to call things "text" instead of "ascii".

Every time someone utters the word "ascii", they just mean text. Saying “I'm using ASCII” doesn't mean anything anymore, because nobody uses EBCDIC anymore – you are, no matter what, effectively using a superset of ASCII, by default UTF-8. The real question is which one.

> Saying “I'm using ASCII” doesn't mean anything anymore, because nobody uses EBCDIC anymore

I get what you're saying, but I have seen bugs at work caused by distributed systems sending text in ASCII or UTF8 to an IBM z/OS mainframe with EBCDIC.

It seems to work exporting to both ASCII standard and extended for me.

Ah, yes, I can see it now, but that option is almost invisible for me. I have to operate some scroll buttons at the edge to see the words "ASCII Extended".

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