> Each time,I had to ask myself: - What's the encoding ? - How to detect it ? - What's the collation ? You always have to ask yourself that if you deal with te

> Each time,I had to ask myself: - What's the encoding ? - How to detect it ? - What's the collation ? You always have to ask yourself that if you deal with text, otherwise your application will most likely be broken. Heck, Unicode actually made this easier because you can use it as an internal encoding to convert everything else into. Yes, Unicode has overhead and complexities, but these are because text and language is complicated.