Subject UTF-8 Everywhere
Author
Post date 2014-01-17T08:39:54Z
To promote usage and support of the UTF-8 encoding, to convince that
this should be the default choice of encoding for storing text strings
in memory or on disk, for communication and all other uses.

http://www.utf8everywhere.org/

Discussion via HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/ item?id=7070944

and reddit