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What is character encoding

please explain what is UTF 8

13th Jul 2017, 10:15 AM
Athul Joy
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UTF - 8 is a character encoding which is default in HTML 5. so what actually means A character in UTF - 8 can be from 1 to 4 bytes long. UTF-8 can represent any character in the Unicode standard. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. UTF-8 is the preferred encoding for e-mail and web pages. There is other encoding characters like UTF - 16, and more. 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, capable of encoding the entire Unicode repertoire. UTF-16 is used in major operating systems and environments, like Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/CE and the Java and .NET byte code environments.
15th Jul 2017, 7:37 AM
Ankit
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13th Jul 2017, 11:08 AM
Akash
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