Anyway, it will be necessary to specify the encoding of unicode in
some way, which could possibly allow even to specify even some non-unicode-charsets.
While I'll skip diving deeper into the swamp that is character sets and encoding (I'm already up to my neck in it, thanks, and I don't have any long straws handy :) I'll point out that the above statement is meaningless--there *are* no Unicode non-unicode charsets.
It is possible to use the UTF encodings on non-unicode charsets--you could reasonably use UTF-8 to encode, say, Shift-JIS characters. (where Shift-JIS is both an encoding and a character set, and it can be separated into pieces)
It's not unwise (and, in practice, at least in implementation quite sensible) to separate the encoding from the character set, but you need to be careful to keep the separation clear, though many of the sets and encodings don't go out of their way to help with that.
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