Be careful when flinging bias accusations around; the author is not actually from the US/UK [0]. In addition, while .NET methods will work correctly for "ØÆÅ",

Be careful when flinging bias accusations around; the author is not actually from the US/UK [0]. In addition, while .NET methods will work correctly for "ØÆÅ", they have incorrect behavior when it comes to any characters that lie outside the BMP, which includes many CJK characters. So, .NET only meets your requirements if you never interact with such languages. [0] http://www.utf8everywhere.org/#faq.anglophile http://www.utf8everywhere.org/#faq.anglophile