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What is UTF-8?

Jan 8th, 2006 10:00
Knud van Eeden,

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What is UTF-8?

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UTF-8 = 'U'nicode 'T'ransformation 'F'ormat- 8 (bits)

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UTF-8 is a compressed representation of the Unicode,
(which uses a Huffman like compression method (or thus in general one
assigns the least amount of bytes to the most used characters) to
represent the Unicode)).

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The result is thus that you need less bytes to represent the same
Unicode character text.

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It is a completely equivalent way of representation, as UTF-8
can be lossless converted to Unicode and vice versa.

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UTF-8 was invented by Ken Ritchie (one of the creators of the Unix 
operating system)
and Rob Pike (currently researcher at Google).

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Internet: see also:

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Unicode: Can you give an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/38864/fid/1852

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