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In computing, a legacy encoding is, according to Basis Technology Corporation, "any character encoding that was in use prior to the advent of the Unicode standard", and legacy encodings "include national, international and vendor encoding standards".[1]

References

  1. ^ Brian Carr and Karen Watts (1999-09-01). "Processing database information using Unicode, a case study". IBM developmentWorks. Basis Technology Corporation. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

See also

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