>>> What part of "get a decent text editor" didn't you understand? :-P
>>
>> Can you name one single text editor which can actually change character
>> encoding based on a mere XML encoding specification?
>
> I would bet emacs does it, since it does everything, including sorting
> laundry and fixing tires.

Yeah. But then I'd have to use Emacs...

> But seriously, though, http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=xml+editors

Right. Because my text editor only needs to edit XML. Oh, wait...

In all seriousness though. I could probably just configure my editor to 
always use UTF-8. That still doesn't solve the problem of typing obscure 
characters in the first place. And it still doesn't change the fact that 
as soon as I open the file in any other program, it's going to break 
because that other program doesn't know what the hell character encoding 
to use.

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