With this information, clients can easily map these encodings to Unicode. In practice, a few encodings will be preferred, most likely: UTF-8 , ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), US-ASCII, UTF-16, the other encodings in the ISO-8859 series, iso-2022-jp, euc-kr, and so on.
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