DanielMiessler

Misconceptions about Unicode and UTF-8/16/32

Created/Updated: October 28, 2018

You keep using this word; I don’t think it means what you think it means. — The Princess Bride So everyone knows that UTF-8 encodes Unicode code points into eight bits, and UTF-16 encodes Unicode code points into 16 bits (or, two bytes), right? I mean…”UTF-8″ has the answer right there in the name, doesn’t it? Nope. unicode.org…

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