What are the commonly confused encodings that may result in identical test data?

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Published on 2012-06-30T18:42:22Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 21:24 UTC
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I'm fixing code that is using ASCIIEncoding in some places and UTF-8 encoding in other functions.

Since we aren't using the UTF-8 features, all of our unit tests passed, but I want to create a heightened awareness of encodings that produce similar results and may not be fully tested.

I don't want to limit this to just UTF-8 vs ASCII, since I think issue with code that handles ASN.1 fields and other code working with Base64.

So, what are the commonly confused encodings that may result in identical test data?

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