Vincent Ramos wrote:

Yes, but non utf-8 compliant browsers are not very common, nowadays; there should be less and less.

And people who use Linux as a desktop OS are pretty rare as well. Should we therefore do things that ignore their basic editing needs? In other words, if people using these older browsers edit fine as is, then why in the world we suddenly do something that made their every edit destructive and them labled a vandal?

I must admit I accused one user of "destroying a page" after she edited a meta page with an old browser. I'm deeply sorry for that and therefore don't think we should have UTF-8 were there is not an overriding and very compelling need for it (alas meta is such a place, but en.wikipedia isn't - perhaps other Latin wikis as well).

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)