I love TEA, but my UTF-8 strings convert to Windows 1252 and so my non-ASCII character get munged. This is particularly noticeable when I’m using TEA to do HTML via gvim. I convert the munged characters to HTML entities, but this is no longer necessary.
I would love full UTF-8 support in the other excellent TEA.
+1 for using markdown on your discussion boards, btw.