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by nonchalance 4662 days ago
String encoding in general is a mess. Wait till you get to code pages. Incidentally, the largest JS script I've ever seen pertained to encoding and decoding characters under various codepages: https://raw.github.com/Niggler/js-codepage/master/cptable.js [github complains "(Sorry about that, but we can't show files that are this big right now.)"]