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In unicode terminology a ''Legacy encoding'' is an encoding that can't represent all of unicode but is still used for compatibility or other reasons. Many of them pre-date unicode, others are slight modifications to older encodings to support important new characters such as the [[euro]] sign (€) or to satisfy countries that felt there were significant ommisions for thier language in older encodings. The best known such encoding is probablly [[ISO-8859-15]].
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Legacy encodings can be split into several groups
* The [[ISO-8859]]-n group of single byte encodings
* The [[IBM]]/[[DOS]]/Windows OEM series of single byte code pages (437,850 and others).
* The single byte windows [[Code_page#Microsoft_code_pages|ANSI code page]]s (125x)
* The windows multi byte code pages used by windows as both ansi and OEM code pages for CJK languages.
* Various other multibyte CJK encodings such as [[ISO-2022]] and [[EUC]].
