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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

Microsoft has tried all kinds of things, in all kinds of markets, to maximize their income. One of the more nefarious:

Windows ANSI code pages closely match—but are not identical to—ISO-8859 character sets. Microsoft intentionally modified them to fill "blank" control character slots with symbols like curly quotes and currency signs.

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