Hi everybody:
Google sitemaps have to be encoded in UTF-8. Should I bother getting a special UTF-8-capable text editor for an English-language site?
There are many sites, which explain the details of UTF-8, but all of them somehow fail to mention at which point the computer-generated Unicode is transformed into the UTF-8?

If Microsoft multilanguage support is enabled in Windows (whatever language one needs), then the WordPad renders Unicode in the following modes: "Unicode", RTF, Word 6.0
But that is Unicode, not UTF-8.
So if I want to create a Google site map, do I need a special text editor which types and renders UTF-8?
Or there no difference between Unicode and UTF-8 for English language?

Thx
Walter