I still remember the days when I couldn't use π and é in the same document, because there was no codepage that contained both of them. I also remember the days

I still remember the days when I couldn't use π and é in the same document, because there was no codepage that contained both of them. I also remember the days when pretty much any website that had non-English text had to have instructions on it for how to view it properly, because mojibake was so bloody common. (It should also tell you something that not only is there a name for "computers failed at charsets", but the name is Japanese.)