That's only if you are dealing with an US English userbase who never copy/paste from Microsoft Word. Anything else, and the better unicode support is a godsend

That's only if you are dealing with an US English userbase who never copy/paste from Microsoft Word. Anything else, and the better unicode support is a godsend. Better have them pop up as type errors during development than as uncaught exceptions whenever a user happens to first put unicode somewhere you don't expect.