We shouldn't be telling those people that they have to upgrade to use Wikipedia if they can use Wikipedia just fine without UTF-8. The benefits simply do not seem to be at all compelling enough to justify the negatives (at least for en.wikipedia). But if you can figure out a way to have UTF-8 without the associated problems, then great.
I wholeheartdly agree. This is totally against Wikipedia's spirit to discriminate for using some browser and not some other (.
--- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Nicolas 'Ryo' (as myself, not fr:embassador)