Yes, but frameworks are supposed to solve issues like UTF8 encoding by setting up sane defaults automatically. If I wanted to deal with solved problems myself,

Yes, but frameworks are supposed to solve issues like UTF8 encoding by setting up sane defaults automatically. If I wanted to deal with solved problems myself, I wouldn't be using a framework. Also, YC's crappy HTML doesn't make the site less useful for visitors. This blog's poor unicode support does.