Character encoding - iso-8859-1 or utf-8?

[firstreflex]

Can anyone tell me which is the prefered character encoding? I don't have plans to use non-latin characters but is there a downside to using utf-8?
I've always used iso-8859-1, is there a good reason to change?

[DrDoc]

Both character sets would work. However, it's better to be as specific as possible. If you're only using characters that fall under iso-8859-1, then specify so :)

utf-8 will work too, of course, but that's kinda like responding you're from Earth if someone asks ;)

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I've always used iso-8859-1, is there a good reason to change?

I don't see any reason unless of course you are coding and it requires UTF-8.

Years ago I started with windows-1252 because that was the encoding that FP generated. About two years ago I switched everything over to 8859-1 as that seemed to be the more predominant and stable character coding to utilize for the sites I develop.