UTF-8 and latin1

[Tobiah]

> That has already been decided, as much as it ever can be. UTF-8 is
> essentially always the correct encoding to use on output, and almost
> always the correct encoding to assume on input absent any explicit
> indication of another encoding. (e.g. the HTML "standard" says that
> all HTML files must be UTF-8.)

I got an email from a client with blast text that
was in French with stuff like: Montréal, Quebéc.
latin1 did the trick.
Also, whenever I get a spreadsheet from a client and save as .csv,
or take browser data through PHP, it always seems
to work with latin1, but not UTF-8.