u simply cannot display it correctly or even figure out where it ends. There are over a hundred encodings and above code point 127, all bets are off.</p>

<p>How do we preserve this information about what encoding a string uses? Well, there are standard ways to do this. For an email message, you are expected to have a string in the header of the form</p>

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<p><strong>Content-Type: text/plain;&nbsp;charset="UTF-8"</strong></p>
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<p>For a 