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Viewing content

There are several delivered applications which are used to view content.

For these applications to accurately display the content they must know the encoding of the data.

For example, if the tool is displaying the content to a browser it needs to let the browser know if it is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 encoded data. If we had UTF-8 encoded data but told the browser that it was ISO-8859-1 encoded then you would see extra characters in place of the expected character.