Tip: Conquering Character Encoding Chaos With GNU Recode

I'm still wearing scars on my brain from the times I worked as a web developer. One of them is the ability to immediately recite awoken in the middle of the night the names of ISO-8859-2 and CP-1250 (and what's the difference between them[1]), the de jure and de facto standards of Central European character encodings.

It. Hurts.

[1] For my language it's exactly 3 characters (times two cases): ?, ?, ?; the rest (six more) is the same in both.

ASCII as far as I can see, Is all anything ever needs to be.

ASCII rhymes with easy, but Unicode rhymes with horned toad.

and that's one great big load of ....something.

ASCII, you see?

what I want to know -- does dino rhyme with wino?

tc -

dino rhymes with kino or bean-o or He kicked me in my spleen - Oh!!!! or would Levi's Jello be Jean-O? or That Dino, What does he know?

That dino really needs more Beano?

I'm wondering what'd dino on, or has the coffee kicked in?

ta -

Coffee has kicked out. Must refresh. Then comes the time to be very afraid. Very, very afraid.

can I have that in Haiku

You can even get it in Australia

TA -

Coffee has kicked out Winter morning refreshes. Be very afraid.