Why UTF-8 sucks

Because you can configure it at every goddamn place. Assuming I want to set up an ordinary website with php and mysql. Then you can configure it at:

• Apache config
  
• PHP config
  
• PHP MySQL module config
• MySQL general config
  
• Each text/char/varchar field in the particular MySQL tables
• When you process the Data in your PHP Script and when you receive/transport Data via GET/POST
  
• In the metadata each HTML site
• On each AJAX Request you make
  
• On each browser visiting the site
  

Thats not only plain confusing for the admin but between each program/module you have the possibility to somehow screw up something with the conversion if not all of them is set to UTF-8
It's always been a pain in the ass to make my websites UTF-8; some users always had problems getting it displayer correctly.

Now i got the problem that normally submitted data works fine, but data containing umlauts submitted over AJAX are displayed wrongly. Hail utf-8 -.-