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Someone I know worked at a company that sells a content management system with version control. Bigcos use it to keep and update lots of marketing materials and manuals. Those responsible for product x or area y can see what's been added by others, and update their own versions, and record that.

In this way, new FAQs and other updates spread to all the markets easily.

It's vastly easier to do this stuff when all the documents use the same text encoding. Even if noone can read everything, the fact that everything uses the same encoding means that any pair of languages you can read are technically readable.



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