Why are you not using Unicode??? Who do you think you are??

Because people with non-ascii characters in their names deserve to be fucked, apparently

A bank in Belgium could not write their customer names with umlauts and diacritics because they are not in EBDIC.

UTF-8 motherfucker! Do you speak it?

does Unicode have á, â, ã, ç, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú? I'm genuinely asking.

@darksideofyay Yes.

Just a minor addition: Unicode is just a mapping of codepoints to characters - whereas ISO-... is both a mapping and encoding.

Encodings are UTF-7, -8, -16 and -32. There is also a Chinese variant and the limited UCS encodings.
And the broken MySQL utf8 implementation.

@darksideofyay Well, you are typing Unicode right now, so...