From: matthewmpower@gmail.com   
      
   >"fadden" wrote:   
      
   > 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".   
      
   Thank you, I've been re-typing historical articles from 1800s newspapers about   
   the area I live in. Doing it on a IIgs. I didn't realize there are so many   
   different encodings. Your reply was helpful.   
      
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