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'''UTF-8''' is an encoding of the [[Unicode]] character set. It has been adopted as the preferred standard character set on UNIX systems and the Internet. It is backwards-compatible with ASCII in several important ways, making it easy to transition legacy systems for manipulating international text. | '''UTF-8''' is an encoding of the [[Unicode]] character set. It has been adopted as the preferred standard character set on UNIX systems and the Internet. It is backwards-compatible with ASCII in several important ways, making it easy to transition legacy systems for manipulating international text. | ||
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* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt RFC 3629, ''UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646''] | * [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt RFC 3629, ''UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646''] | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 24 December 2011
UTF-8 is an encoding of the Unicode character set. It has been adopted as the preferred standard character set on UNIX systems and the Internet. It is backwards-compatible with ASCII in several important ways, making it easy to transition legacy systems for manipulating international text.