Character Conversion points
You’d think this sort of problem would be resolved by now, but it’s not. It’s still almost impossible to quickly and easily migrate an application from the too common default Latin-1 to UTF-8 character set encoding. The problem isn’t that UTF-8 can’t handle the conversion. No, that’s definitely not it. UTF-8 can represent any Latin-1 character and much, much more. The problem is that the Latin-1 charset is so deeply ingrained as the default in every software interface that you just have so many faulty conversion points. A conversion point is a handoff point between one software component and another, a place where character encodings matter and where faulty conversions are way too common.