Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding?

Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding?

Aktualisiert (Donnerstag, den 08. November 2007 um 11:39 Uhr) Geschrieben von: Administrator Donnerstag, den 05. Oktober 2006 um 01:11 Uhr

Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again?

Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish?

With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (character forms) of basically all languages can be displayed with one single encoding setting.