From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 6:09:55 PM UTC-8, TRS-90 wrote:   
   > Could anyone help me understand a text file?   
      
   Run "iconv -l" to get a brief list of character encodings.  (I see about 1100   
   on Ubuntu Linux.)   
      
   If you stick to ASCII, your text will be readable everywhere, but most   
   non-English languages can't be represented with the ASCII character set.    
   Modern systems use Unicode, often with UTF-8 encoding, which was designed so   
   that ASCII text "just works".   
      
   The Apple IIgs uses a custom locale-specific character set, often Mac OS   
   Roman.  It is based on ASCII, but has additional characters for common   
   Latin-derived languages, plus some math symbols.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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