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 <h2 id=boring-stuff>Some Boring Stuff You Need To Understand Before You Can Dive In</h2>
-<p class=f>Did you know that the people of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Province>Bougainville</a> have the smallest alphabet in the world? Their <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_alphabet>Rotokas alphabet</a> is composed of only 12 letters: A, E, G, I, K, O, P, R, S, T, U, and V. On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters. English, of course, has 26 letters&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;52 if you count uppercase and lowercase separately&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;plus a handful of <i class=baa>!@#$%&amp;</i> punctuation marks.
+<p class=f>Few people think about it, but text is incredibly complicated. Start with the alphabet. The people of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Province>Bougainville</a> have the smallest alphabet in the world; their <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_alphabet>Rotokas alphabet</a> is composed of only 12 letters: A, E, G, I, K, O, P, R, S, T, U, and V. On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters. English, of course, has 26 letters&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;52 if you count uppercase and lowercase separately&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;plus a handful of <i class=baa>!@#$%&amp;</i> punctuation marks.
 
-<p>When people talk about &#8220;text,&#8221; they&#8217;re thinking of &#8220;characters and symbols on the computer screen.&#8221;  But computers don&#8217;t deal in characters and symbols; they deal in bits and bytes. Every piece of text you&#8217;ve ever seen on a computer screen is actually stored in a particular <i>character encoding</i>. Very roughly speaking, the character encoding provides a mapping between the stuff you see on your screen and the stuff your computer actually stores in memory and on disk. There are many different character encodings, some optimized for particular languages like Russian or Chinese or English, and others that can be used for multiple languages.
+<p>When you talk about &#8220;text,&#8221; you&#8217;re probably thinking of &#8220;characters and symbols on my computer screen.&#8221; But computers don&#8217;t deal in characters and symbols; they deal in bits and bytes. Every piece of text you&#8217;ve ever seen on a computer screen is actually stored in a particular <i>character encoding</i>. Very roughly speaking, the character encoding provides a mapping between the stuff you see on your screen and the stuff your computer actually stores in memory and on disk. There are many different character encodings, some optimized for particular languages like Russian or Chinese or English, and others that can be used for multiple languages.
 
 <p>In reality, it&#8217;s more complicated than that. Many characters are common to multiple encodings, but each encoding may use a different sequence of bytes to actually store those characters in memory or on disk. So you can think of the character encoding as a kind of decryption key. Whenever someone gives you a sequence of bytes&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;a file, a web page, whatever&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;and claims it&#8217;s &#8220;text,&#8221; you need to know what character encoding they used so you can decode the bytes into characters. If they give you the wrong key or no key at all, you&#8217;re left with the unenviable task of cracking the code yourself. Chances are you&#8217;ll get it wrong, and the result will be gibberish.