3athlete (3-ăth'lēt') is UTF-8 Encoded

I have made some significant backend changes to 3athlete today. All pages should be UTF-8 encoded including RSS feeds. Previously, 3athlete was a mishmash of utf-8, windows-1252, and iso-8859-1. Before anything is inserted into the database, all characters are up-converted to UTF-8. This means I can store things like the following in the database:

• Ελληνική (Greek)
  
• Русский (Russian)
  
• Français (French)

The possiblities are more theoritical than practical, but if you have experienced errors while trying to view RSS feeds in the past, this should not happen again. Although, only time will determine if the bug has truly been fixed.

If I get a few free moments I will share the "foo" I used to make this possible in a future post...