I've lived through dealing with non-UTF8 encoding issues and it was a truly gigantic pain in the ass. I'm much more on the side now of people who only want to

I've lived through dealing with non-UTF8 encoding issues and it was a truly gigantic pain in the ass. I'm much more on the side now of people who only want to deal with UTF8 and fully support software that tells any other encoding to go pound sand. The harder life gets for people who use other encodings (yes, particularly Microsoft) the more incentive they have to eventually get on board and stop costing everyone time and effort managing all this nonsense.