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Line 4: Infobox template for character encodings, character sets, code pages et cetera. While the difference between a coded character set and a character encoding is clear in a Unicode context (UTF-8 and UTF-16 are different encodings for the same set), the difference is often blurred by legacy encodings. For example, so-called "[[Windows-1252\|WinLatin-1]]" is a ''de facto'' extension of the "Latin-1" (ISO 8859-1) ''encoding'', whereas so-called "[[Code page 850\|DOS Latin-1]]" is an alternative, incompatible encoding (or transformation format) of the ISO 8859-1 ''charset''. Both add their own extensions, meaning that ''their own charsets'', taken as wholes, have their own unique ~~identity~~identities as well. For this reason, the same infobox template is presently used for both. == Usage ==

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