• International data often contains foreign accent characters, diacritics or local-language text characters that are not supported by most domestic computer systems. Be aware of the large number of different international data encoding standards that exist to store this information, and implement systems to correctly manage data encoding. Many cases of data corruption are caused by incorrectly handling data encoding at the point of data capture, or, more typically, at the point of data transfer from one system to another, such as the transfer of data from a Web-based data capture form to a back-end data management system. Global encoding standards such as Unicode or UTF-8 can help; however, a knowledge of these encoding standards and proper data conversion processes is critical to ensure data accuracy.
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