This article is trying to describe how to work on Windows specifically. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s saying ignore encodings, though honestly why -everything- isn&#x27;t just encoded utf-8 I don&#x27;t know.<p>It&#x27;s sad that a &quot;modern&quot; OS that had a mostly ground up rewrite (NT) after utf-8 was invented, doesn&#x27;t have better support for it. I get in memory storage being utf-16, and I&#x27;d even accept modern OSes storing files in utf-16, but utf-8 is so elegantly backwards compatible with ascii, it&#x27;s brain dead not to fix -everything- to work with it.<p>Perhaps this is the biggest difference between a closed OS like Windows and it&#x27;s more open counterparts, if Windows were open then the community could have fixed this issue long ago.