With UTF-8 you have increased flexibility over ISO 8859-1. The former can encode any character included in Unicode while the latter is limited to Western European languages.

ISO 8859-1 ("Latin1") doesn't include, for example, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, etc.

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