CHARACTER SET CONFLICTS
HTML allows you to specify only one character set (encoding) per web page. For web pages that feature only Cyrillic and ASCII characters, this is no problem: You specify Windows 1251. But there is a problem with the Tower of Babel page: At the top of the web page, the global gateway includes two characters that are not included in 1251—accented Latin characters. Compare the 1251 and 1252 character sets in Figure 3 to see the problem.
Figure 3. Notice how the characters of Windows 1251 (left) and 1252 (right) vary. In particular, notice that 1251 does not include accented Latin characters.
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