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Browsers receiving a file with no character set information must make a blind assumption. The safest is probably to assume [[ISO 8859-1]], but it is also common for browsers to assume the character set native to the machine on which they are running. The consequence of choosing incorrectly is that characters outside the printable ASCII range (32 to 126) may appear incorrectly. This presents few problems for English-speaking users, but European users require characters outside that range for everyday use.
For maximum compatibility, it is increasingly common for multilingual websites to use the [[UTF-8]] encoding of the [[
It is important to point out that successful viewing of a page is not necessarilty an indication that it is encoded correctly. If the creator of a page and the reader are both assuming some machine-specific character set, and the server does not send any identifying information, then the reader will nonetheless see the page as the creator intended, but other readers with different native sets will not.
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