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UTF-8 is an efficient encoding of
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that recognizes the fact that the majority of text-based communications are in ASCII. It therefore optimizes the encoding of these characters.
Unicode is preferred to ASCII because it permits the inclusion of accents, scientific symbols and characters used in
other than English. The
UTF-8 format is a standard encoding that provides the most efficient means of encoding 16-bit
Unicode characters in cases where the majority of characters are in the ASCII range. Both
UTF-8 and the alternative
UTF - 16 encoding issupported by all widely used operating systems and major applications (and has been for more than 15 years).
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