For those of you who like to blog in multiple languages or use "extra" characters, things are looking up. 8o)
Ben's Friends is now using UTF-8 (Unicode) on all blogs. Some of the blogs may still be rendering in ISO-8859-1 (the old encoding). If you notice any strange character renderings or '?' in various places on someone's blog, please send me the URL and I'll be glad to update that blogs templates.
Switching to Unicode *shouldn't* cause any problems, just give us more flexability.
Here are some things to help you on your way to i18n blogging.