I put this thread here,if it's on wrong place,I'm sorry. Move it to another.

Founded this on HTG,it's a good article,hope that can help someone to understund this better.
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ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859… You may have seen these strange monikers floating around, but what do they actually mean? Read on as we explain what character encoding is and how these acronyms relate to the plain text we see on screen.
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