Alexander Boström wrote:
RPMs will probably always need names that everyone can type. That limits it too Latin-1 (regardless of encoding)
Please, note that "everyone" cannot type Latin1 .
There are enough countries in the World, where the Latin1 symbols are not used at all. Moreover, they did not use ASCII in their culture initially. ASCII came later, as a "symbols for the technical English", because this language are used for computers for the historical reasons (as well as the French is used in diplomacy).
IMHO the issue here is a lack of geography knowledge. Some people ("kids" in terms of Ralf :) ) actually think that it is possible to travell from US to Europe on a car... (without the ferry :) ). Hence it is not too surprisingly that they think that all the people in the World use latin1 ...