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Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

About Unicode and the Complexities of Conversion

This section looks briefly at Unicode, its emergence in response to the problems it addresses, and the standards bodies who sponsor it. Then it discusses some of the complexities involved in converting text between various encodings when conversion exceeds the simplicity of a one-to-one mapping. The section discusses these concepts in the context of how the Unicode Converter handles them.

About Unicode

Round-Trip Fidelity

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