Why are the lang files not in UTF-8 without BOM but as ASCII?

[eluser]term25[/eluser]
There are many other languages which have character like ščťžýáííéô

and therefore ASCII is in my opinion not the future.


Please, explain to me is Codeigniter not using UTF-8 or maybe better UTF-8 without BOM as default format for language files?

Thanks for the explanation.