The great thing is that one now only has to explain to people to use UTF-8 in all cases, which is preferable to having to fool around with a lot of language-spe

The great thing is that one now only has to explain to people to use UTF-8 in all cases, which is preferable to having to fool around with a lot of language-specific encodings. And it helps that almost all editors, these days, also default to UTF-8 encoding. So you can just copy/paste special characters and it works...