The advice you mention reminds me of the "Unicode sandwich", a term used by Ned Batchelder in his awesome "Pragmatic Unicode" talk[0][1]. [0] http://nedbatchel

The advice you mention reminds me of the "Unicode sandwich", a term used by Ned Batchelder in his awesome "Pragmatic Unicode" talk[0][1]. [0] http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html [1] http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain/unipain.html#35 http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain/unipain.html#35