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Setting character sets

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Setting character sets

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- [Instructor] You are probably aware that the world doesn't all speak the same language. And you're probably aware that different languages use different characters. Not every language uses the same simple alphabet that English does. In the early days of the internet, if you received an email written in another language, it would typically be full of odd characters, like empty rectangles or question marks. That's because we had yet to establish a standard way of displaying characters on the screen. There are two concepts that make this work; a character set and encoding. There's a marvelous and interesting article that explains this in some detail. So if you'd like lots and lots of details, I recommend reading this article, "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets, No Excuses!" If this is a little bit much, and you may find it a little bit much, then briefly, a character set will include the characters that make…

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