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           </li>
           <li><a
             href="https://wgropp.cs.illinois.edu/courses/cs598-s16/lectures/lecture32.pdf">MPI-IO</a>,
-            just enough to read a file into k parts and combine �wc� outputs to
+            just enough to read a file into k parts and combine 'wc' outputs to
             understand multicore scaling.
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         </ul>