Hi,

> I also support using UTF-8.
>
> One question, though: how could you guard against subtle bugs?  Since
> ASCII coded in UTF-8 looks like plain ASCII, an unwary developer could
> accidentally treat the UTF-8 data as simply ASCII, which has
> unexpected behavior for unicode data.

It should of course be documented that strings are UTF-8. A developer,
who doesn't care about character sets and doesn't read documentation,
gets, what he deserves. Right now, character sets are mostly ignored,
so the situation will improve anyway :)

Burkhard





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