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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>!@#$%&</i> punctuation marks.
<p class=f>Did you know that the people of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Province>Bougainville</a> have the smallest alphabet in the world? Their <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_alphabet>Rotokas alphabet</a> is composed of only 12 letters: A, E, G, I, K, O, P, R, S, T, U, and V. On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters. English, of course, has 26 letters&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;52 if you count uppercase and lowercase separately&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;plus a handful of <i class=baa>!@#$%&amp;</i> punctuation marks.
<p>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.