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6 Encodings a2ps is trying to support the various usual encodings that its users use. This chapter presents what an encoding is, how the encodings support is handled within a2ps, and some encodings it supports. This section is actually taken from the web pages of Alis Technologies inc. Document encoding is the most important but also the most sensitive and explosive topic in Internet internationalization. It is an essential factor since most of the information distributed over the Internet is in text format.