Well .. theoretically you could use UTF-8 BOM to mark UTF-8 files on per-document basis. But implementing detection of this into existing clients is of course not always an option. In my opinion - using UTF-8 as default encoding is good compromise. RFC compliant clients will still work and english only text will be displayed as expected. For other languages having an option to display accented characters in some clients (UTF-8 enabled ones) is still better than not being able to display them at all.
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