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It's all this vocabulary fighting that makes this stuff so damn hard for people new to trying to do interesting things with strings. Like, different languages use totally different terms in the API documentation, even.

So, for example, I can figure out how to take a document written in Microsoft Word with that Latin-1 business and make the characters stop sucking in python 3, but I don't even know what to google to do the same thing in javascript, because people use terms like "encoding" and such totally differently.