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UTF-8 is a text encoding system, just like ASCII. UTF stands for "Unicode Transformation Format".
UTF-8 is a way to encode [[Unicode]] text in 8-byte chunks.
 
== See Also ==
 
[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"]
 
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UTF-8 is a way to encode Unicode text in 8-byte chunks.

See Also

Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"