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<h2 id=divingin>Diving In</h2>
<p class=f>Unknown or incorrect character encoding is the #1 cause of gibberish text on the web, in your inbox, and indeed across every computer system ever written. In <a href=strings.html>Chapter 3</a>, I talked about the history of character encoding and the creation of Unicode, the &#8220;one encoding to rule them all.&#8221; I&#8217;d love it if I never had to see a gibberish character on a web page again, because all authoring systems stored accurate encoding information, all transfer protocols were Unicode-aware, and every system that handled text maintained perfect fidelity when converting between encodings.
<p class=f>Question: what&#8217;s the #1 cause of gibberish text on the web, in your inbox, and across every computer system ever written? It&#8217;s character encoding. In <a href=strings.html>Chapter 3</a>, I talked about the history of character encoding and the creation of Unicode, the &#8220;one encoding to rule them all.&#8221; I&#8217;d love it if I never had to see a gibberish character on a web page again, because all authoring systems stored accurate encoding information, all transfer protocols were Unicode-aware, and every system that handled text maintained perfect fidelity when converting between encodings.
<p>I&#8217;d also like a pony.
<p>A Unicode pony.
<p>A Unipony, as it were.