The biggest problem is that everything, after a clean install, seems to default to latin1 or ASCII, so the first thing you need to do is run around to every sin

The biggest problem is that everything, after a clean install, seems to default to latin1 or ASCII, so the first thing you need to do is run around to every single piece of software your app touches (the db, web forms, the database, the OS, etc) and make it send and receive unicode. And God help you if you forget one.