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In an ideal world, the only character encoding (or, loosely, “character set”) that you’d ever see would be UTF-8 (utf-8), and Latin-1 (iso-8859-1) for all those legacy documents. However, the encodings mentioned below exist and can be found on the Web.
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Sean M. Burke (Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing HTML, Writing Spiders & More)
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Church also figured out how to encode an HTML version of a book, one he’d cowritten, in a single drop of DNA,
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Britt Wray (Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction)