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The whole point of UTF-8 is that we don't need something to tell UTF-8
strings from ascii strings :-)

Symbol['<ascii character>']
Symbol['<utf8 character>']

And I don't think storing hundreds, if not thousands, of glyphs in the
*.pcb file as Symbol[]s, makes any sense at all.  We really need to be
able to read a *.ttf file directly if we're going to support large
fonts.

> If the PCB file format becomes binary,

I think a zip file is OK, because lots of OSS projects use zip, and
the internal file is still ascii anyway so you can always extract it.
Best of both worlds :-)