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<p><strong><font size="4">The Single Most Important Fact About Encodings</font></strong></p>

<p>If you completely forget everything I just explained, please remember one extremely important fact. <strong>It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses</strong>. You can no longer stick your head in the sand and pretend that "plain" text is ASCII.</p>

<p align="center"><strong><u>There Ain't No Such Thing As Plain Text.</u></strong></p>

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