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Friday, February 03, 2012 4:11 PM

It makes me wonder sometimes. When there is a charset that supports virtually every language, supported by nearly every kind of software, why do programmers still use language / region-specific character encodings?

The concept is simple: use what works with everything, and that way you won't have to change it later.

Lazy programmers: use unicode.