UTF-8 in Hoary

[Arun Bhanu]

On 17:13 Fri 29 Oct     , Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Good morning freedom lovers!
> 
> First thing you should do when you upgrade to hoary is enable UTF-8 by
> default -> and only UTF-8! :-)
> 
> 1. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 2. Disable all of the ISO-8859-1 locales in the list
> 3. Enable the appropriate UTF-8 locales for the languages you use
> 4. Choose a UTF-8 locale as the default system locale

May be I missed a previous discussion on this topic. Can you explain why
this is necessary? What is wrong with ISO-8859-1?

Cheers,
Arun...