Siteadmin, Check users, nsTeam1RO, nsTeam1RW, nsTeam1_talkRO, nsTeam1_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
30,650
edits
Changes
link: UTF-8 and Unicode Standards
Each byte sequence starts with a byte whose initial bits indicates how many total bytes it takes to encode the character. If the initial bit is 0, then it's a 7-bit ASCII character which fits in one byte. Nearly all text written in American English will fit in this encoding. [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/pictures/unicode/utf8.png (picture)]
Each byte sequence starts with a byte whose initial bits indicates how many total bytes it takes to encode the character. If the initial bit is 0, then it's a 7-bit ASCII character which fits in one byte. Nearly all text written in American English will fit in this encoding. [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/pictures/unicode/utf8.png (picture)]
==External links==
*[http://www.utf-8.com/ UTF-8 and Unicode Standards]