Revision as of 04:41, 16 October 2007 edit BenRG (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers 7,373 edits Rewrite. This is not a Unicode-specific term. Legacy encodings are legacy encodings. It's like having an article about brown cows. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 11:27, 16 October 2007 edit undo Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 2,025 edits This rewritten version has nothing at all outside of Wikipedia to back it up. Next edit →
Line 1: {{original research}} In computing, a '''legacy encoding''' is a [[character encoding]] that continues to be used despite being obsoleted by another encoding. An encoding considered legacy in one context may remain the preferred encoding in another. Today the term is most commonly used in the context of [[Unicode\|Unicodification]], where it refers to encodings that do not cover all Unicode code points. Even encodings which postdate the first Unicode standard, such as [[ISO-8859-15]], may be considered legacy encodings in this usage. ==References== {{unreferenced}} <references /> ==See also== * [[Legacy system]]

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