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Line 1: 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~~Unicode, while 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 omissions for their language. The best known such encoding is probably [[ISO-8859-15]]. Legacy encodings are numerous, and include the following major groups:

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