Forums Feature Suggestions UTF-8 petition reaches 88 signatures

Good question.

It's an encoding that allows you to use loads of foreign languages on IRC in addition to English.

A number of other encodings exist, but they only allow for a few languages at any one time, so UTF-8 is a huge improvement over that.

Also, UTF-8 allows you to use those annoying Dingbats symbols and those Old Skool line drawing chars from DOS.