[Rails] Whats the big deal with UTF-8?

[Manuel González Noriega]

On 11/04/06, Chris Richards <evilgeenius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> could someone please explain what the significance/importance of UTF-8
> is, and why you would need it in an application?
>
> I've done a lot of web developing and i've never needed to know what it
> is.  I hope i've not been missing something very important!!
> Thanks,

Well, pretty important indeed :)

 	
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