Password policy character classes - 8-bit characters?

[Jonathan Vaughn]

If I am reading the documentation right, the effect of having the "8-bit"
character class (decimal 128 or less - though this seems more like 7 bit
plus decimal 128) is that if you change the password policy character
classes from 0 (no checking) to 1, almost anything will match, but unicode
characters wouldn't match (so you'd require at least 1 non-unicode non-high
ASCII character, excepting of course the oddball decimal 128). Thus,
ignoring unicode, if you want to match at least 3 of the other normal
classes (upper/lower/digits/special) you'd actually need to set this value
to 4?

Also, is there a particular reason this character class exists (not to
mention the cutoff being 128 "8-bit" not 127 for 7-bit or 255 for 8-bit)?
I'm not seeing an obvious use for it other than to be confusing (and
potentially reduce your intended complexity by one if you weren't paying
attention)