"pyotr filipivich" wrote

|Microsoft is one of the worst for that
| problem. They write pages intended for an English-speaking
| audience, in English, then use just a handful of unnecessary
| UTF-8 characters that break the ANSI continuity. It makes
| no sense.
|
| IMOSHO, it makes no sense, but then it is Microsoft. Which often
| seem to have a lot of "I'm sure it makes sense - not to me, but to
| someone" elements.
|

That's a generous view. I don't see a problem
with switching to UTF-8, but what MS are doing is
to deliberately and unnecessarily break ASCII
compatibility without any need to do so, by replacing
quotes and spaces with unicode characters in UTF-8.
It seems to be a kind of political correctness attitude.
Nearly all English pages can easily be both ASCII and
UTF-8.

I wonder how journalists type those quotes. Maybe
they have a software program that does the conversion?