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What is a character encoding and why should you care?

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Character Encoding for Beginner First why should you care? If you use anything other than the most basic English text, people may not be able to read the content you create  unless you say what   character encoding   you used. For example, you may intend the text to look like this: but it may actually display like this: Not only does lack of character encoding information spoil the readability of displayed text, but it may mean that your data cannot be found by a search engine, or reliably processed by machines in a number of other ways. So what's a character encoding? Words and sentences in text are created from  characters . Examples of characters include the Latin letter  á  or the Chinese ideograph  請  or the Devanagari character  ह . Characters that are needed for a specific purpose are grouped into a  character set  (also called a  repertoire ). (To refer to characters in an unambiguous way, each character is associated with a number
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Nepal’s ISP Fiber Network Backbone ( Nepal’s National and International Fiber Network Map ) We all use internet or what you call it as WiFi in today’s world. But have anyone raised question or just thought what are the sources of internet in Nepal. Where does it all come from? How does it reach to our home and more precisely to our phones,desktops and laptops??? And yes such questions came to my mind. I hope  there may be some guys like me with the same passion. Then this post is for you guys.  So to start I did a little research using Google Search Engine, one of the primary steps anyone could choose to start with :-). And that's not a bad idea either. After spending few hours on Google I stumble on a site which was hosting some documents which looked like some kind of presentation or documentaries presented in any conference or something like that. Here I will briefly explain about the backbone of Internet in Nepal. Brief History of Connectivity  Milestones