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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 (€) or to satisfy countries that felt there were significant omissions for their language. The best known such encoding is probably [[ISO-8859-15]].