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Re:The ups and downs of the HTTP header by wereHamster on Friday December 06, 2013 @07:58AM (#6860834)
Unicode also has a limited set of characters, mostly those that the unicode consortium has agreed on including in the standard.
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Re:The ups and downs of the HTTP header by Keithamus on Friday December 06, 2013 @08:26AM (#6860912)
That's splitting hairs - UTF-8 allows for over a million code points, enough to cover pretty much every written language, and then some (including swathes of emoji characters). ISO-8859-1 has 256 code points, barely enough to cover Europe and America.
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