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 ## Base API
 
 `fmt/base.h` defines the base API which provides main formatting functions
-for `char`/UTF-8, with C++20 compile-time checks. It has minimal include
+for `char`/UTF-8 with C++20 compile-time checks. It has minimal include
 dependencies for better compile times. This header is only beneficial when
 using {fmt} as a library (the default) and not in the header-only mode.
 It also provides `formatter` specializations for the following types: