[quicktips/index] Character encodings limit you to a particular script or set of languages?

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[source] (https://www.w3.org/International/quicktips/index) [en]

Normally character encodings limit you to a particular script or set of languages. Unicode allows you to deal simply with almost all scripts and languages in use around the world.

This may need updating, as Unicode is now the norm.