It is OK to use Unicode everywhere
Terence Eden being right, as per usual. I challenge his opening statement though:
We live in the future now. It is OK to use Unicode everywhere.
It should be OK, but in the world of enterprise software we most certainly do not live in the future and it definitely is not OK to use Unicode everywhere.
I like Eden’s pre-emptive “but what about” arguments though. I’ve heard all of these, always from people who forget English is not the only language in existence.