Yep, and goes to show that the intricacies of character encoding need to be more well-understood by developers, instead of the incredibly small subset of Unicod

Yep, and goes to show that the intricacies of character encoding need to be more well-understood by developers, instead of the incredibly small subset of Unicode Wizards leading the way and everyone else (me included) barely keeping up. Naturally, the top-rated comment in the thread you linked makes a much better point than I ever could!