OK, I assume most of the readers here understand only English. From this assumed start point, consider then the follow scenario: If I were to show you two Chinese characters, one pair is correctly displayed and one uses the wrong encoding (so it displays improperly in the web browser), how would you tell which one is the correct one? For example:
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So, I think most of you can tell that #1 is not Chinese, and 2 is. The question is — assuming you didn't recognize any of the wrongly encoded or Chinese characters — how did you guess the correct answer?