UTF-8

XML Glossary

XML — UTF-8

Information on UTF-8

UTF-8 is an eight-bit character set commonly used in web applications. UTF-8 preserves the full US-ASCII character set. UTF-8 is only of a number of transformation formats used to generate eight-bit characters as an alternative to the multi-octet Unicode characters defined by ISO/IEC 10646-1.

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