I knew when I said Esperanto wasn't a real language that you wouldn't be best pleased. But I'll stick by that all the same. It remains a 'hobby' language for a few dedicated followers, as far as myself and most of the rest of the world is concerned.

The whole idea of it was to unify the world by getting everyone to use Esperanto as a common second language. That did not happen, and never will.

Furthermore, there's no need to have Esperanto as a common second language for the world - because the world now has one, it's called English. Children in China, Japan and Russia learn English as their second language. Children in India and Pakistan who get an education learn English as a second language, because of their cultural heritage. Put those together with all those countries which use English as their first language and you've got most of the world's population covered. As for the French - well, they pass laws to try and stop the spread of the use of English. C est la vie!

Back on topic.

There's no doubt that utf8 is good for new websites and new servers. But it does create problems when transferring websites from older servers which use en-iso-8859-1 to new servers which use utf8. Web hosts like ourselves just have to deal with it on a day to day basis. I do actually look forward to the day when all sites are utf8 - it will make our life a whole lot simpler. It's the transition that's a real pain in the ****.

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