QuickBase has a unique feature which converts certain input characters into windows-1252 encoding and stores them in the database (This assists Windows users when they use QuickBase HTML UI). When data containing such characters is queried, the windows-1252 encoding will not change and will remain surrounded by the usual UTF8-encoded XML. If this data requires XML parsing, the windows-1252 encoded characters have to be re-encoded to UTF8 encoding. This unique feature was recently removed from appcenter, but still exists in QuickBase.