all encodings should default to utf8

[adobeDan]

With the introduction of Unicode support in 2.1, all the encodings were defaulted to ascii. With the prevalence of non-Ascii characters worldwide, this will be limiting for most customers, who will be forced to explicitly specific a different encoding. We should default all encodings to utf8, which is fully backward-compatible with ascii, and will in fact be the default for almost all customers.

[adobeDan]

@phil-levy Any objections to making this change for 2.2?

[phil-levy]

No, it sounds like an excellent idea.