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S1:E2 - "What is encoding?"

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What's the Relationship Between the Unicode Version and the Heart?

In order for the characters that you want to show on your web site to be displayed in h t m l, there has to be a way to decode what it is that you are trying to put into the web site. In the case of your r s s feed, it's like looking for the unicode character of that, and it doesn't know how to translate the thing you gave it. What was in the text when it got to the browser was probably, like, i don't know, ampersand heart, or whatever it is. If i have the heart, rather the heart that we talked about copping and pasting everywhere, the heart that i see on the

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