Of course the desirable properties necessitate one property that's hard to like: not all byte sequences can be legal/valid.
But there's never a confusion about how to interpret the existing ASCII data. Any way you choose is right.
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If you are given a string, e.g. "Hello world", how do you know its encoding? You can't see the difference in that specific case.
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It's ASCII. It's UTF-8. It's Latin-1. It's Latin-N for any N. It's ... Any answer is correct (except of course EBCDIC crap).
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There's no lack of information here that prevents you from processing the existing data.
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