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In computing, a '''legacy encoding''' is a [[character encoding]] that can't represent all of [[Unicode]], but is still used for compatibility or other reasons.<ref>[http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/unicode-db-process/ "Processing database information using Unicode, a case study"], [[IBM]] developmentWorks, [[1 September]] [[1999]] </ref>

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In computing, a '''legacy encoding''' is a [[character encoding]] that can't represent all of [[Unicode]], but is still used for compatibility or other reasons.

Many legacy encodings predate Unicode, while others are slight modifications to older encodings to support important new characters such as the [[euro sign]] (&euro;) or to satisfy countries that felt there were significant omissions for their language. The best known such encoding is probably [[ISO-8859-15]].

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