Discuss UTF-8 encoding scheme.
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UTF- 8 is a scheme of encoding Unicode characters by using 8 bit sequences.
- Unicode is a standard for representing a number of characters from different languages. This unicode standard is developed by 'The Unicode Consortium'. The main objective of this consortium is to replace the existing character sets with Uniform Transformation Format(UTF).
- The UTF has been successfully implemented in HTML, XML ,Java, Java Script, ASP, PHP and so on. The UTF is also supported in a number of Operating Systems and browsers as well.
- In UTF-8 encoding scheme, a character may be 1 - 4 bytes long. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII and can represent any character defined in the unicode standard.
- UTF-8 is therefore,the most preferred encoding scheme for web pages and e-mails.
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