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Ordinary users would do it because many corporate sites used to direct them to do this as a fix for their browsers displaying invalid characters.

• agwa 14y ago
  Would they do that if their browser isn't displaying invalid characters? That's what I meant by "ordinary circumstances."
  • wycats 14y ago
    Corrupted characters in a MySQL database is unfortunately quite common. The user fix will thus propagate the corruption without this fix.