Core.EscapeNonASCIICharacters TYPE: bool VERSION: 1.4.0 DEFAULT: false --DESCRIPTION-- This directive overcomes a deficiency in %Core.Encoding by blindly converting all non-ASCII characters into decimal numeric entities before converting it to its native encoding.
This means that even characters that can be expressed in the non-UTF-8 encoding will be entity-ized, which can be a real downer for encodings like Big5.
It also assumes that the ASCII repetoire is available, although this is the case for almost all encodings.