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Tip: Conquering Character Encoding Chaos With GNU Recode

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In the beginning were C and C++, and hosts of other computer programming languages. These are all based on ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), which as the name implies is based on the English alphabet. Which wouldn't be an issue except there are lot of other humans in the world, and they don't use the English alphabet.

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Recoding scars jezuch 9 1,953 Dec 3, 2008 6:27 PM

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