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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by xtho on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:23AM (#1799806)
The characters you listed are defined in latin-1. They really don't serve as a good example for the urgent need to use unicode.
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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by arkx on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:52AM (#1799830)
They are not in ASCII, and that is the problem. You wouldn't believe how many times I've tripped over Python 2.x's UnicodeDecodeError for example.

Moreover, I wasn't searching for the best example -- merely using something I have personal experience of.

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