is it safe to rely on the hash of a livecode variable from a character encoding standpoint?

[Tom Glod]

Hi Everyone,

I want to ask how likely it is that at some point in the future some change
in character encoding could start producing a different hash for the same
sentence? just thinking about the nightmare scenarios facing a project that
heavily uses hashing to verify and address content......in international
characters......to boot.

Any thoughts on this would really help me out to not make a mistake in my
approach.

Thanks,

Tom