"Despite this, many people regard UTF-8 in online communication as abusive. It is always best to be aware of the attitude towards UTF-8 in a specific channel, mailing list or Usenet group before using non-ASCII UTF-8." As a user this may discourage the use of UTF-8, after discussion on the #gentoo channel the consensus among those that took part is that softwares are supporting Unicode more and more and that this passage is less relevant. Still maybe this is off base.
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