Many of us have faced character encoding issues because we are not in control
of our input sources and made the common assumption that UTF-8 covers
everything.
In my lab, as an example, some of our social media posts have included ZawGyi
Burmese character sets rather than Unicode Burmese. (Bec
This is not an issue for "hackers" nor "performance" in fact even for
"general" it isn't really an issue.
"Special characters" is actually nonsense.
When people complain about "special characters" they haven't thought
things through.
If you are unwilling to think things through and go step b