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	<p>
		This function was added in version <b>20090614</b> of the Beta. All it does is start sessions, setting the
		page charset to whatever is stored in <b>$g_api_header_charset</b> (by default, UTF-8). This was added to
		help abstract away some of the details of adding reCAPTCHA to a POST form.
	</p>

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