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UTF-8 is a way to encode [[Unicode]] text in 8- | UTF-8 is a way to encode [[Unicode]] text in 8-bit chunks. It has the advantage of being backwards-compatible with ASCII, but will use two, three or more bytes to encode higher Unicode characters such as Cyrillic or Japanese text. | ||
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Revision as of 00:50, 12 August 2005
UTF-8 is a way to encode Unicode text in 8-bit chunks. It has the advantage of being backwards-compatible with ASCII, but will use two, three or more bytes to encode higher Unicode characters such as Cyrillic or Japanese text.