UTF-8 support is completely orthogonal to static typing. There are dynamically typed languages that handle it great, and statically typed languages which have

UTF-8 support is completely orthogonal to static typing. There are dynamically typed languages that handle it great, and statically typed languages which have garbage support for it. In general I know what you mean though. “What if this CSV parser turns out to be really important?” If you think there’s a high probability of that, do it in a statically typed language then. 99.9% of data munging I’ve done have been throwaway programs to answer a question to inform some decision or help refine a mental model.