title: ASP.NET requestEncoding and responseEncoding UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1
body: <p>In a Microsoft Security Document, in the Code Review section ( <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302437.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302437.aspx</a> ), it suggests setting the globalization.requestEncoding and globalization.responseEncoding to "ISO-8859-1" opposed to "UTF-8" or another Unicode format.</p>
  
  <p>What are the downsides to using "ISO-8859-1", in the past I've set both to UTF-8 for maximum compatibility. </p>