General

What does UTF-8 encoding do?

Standard

What does UTF-8 encoding do?

UTF-8 is an encoding system for Unicode. It can translate any Unicode character to a matching unique binary string, and can also translate the binary string back to a Unicode character. This is the meaning of “UTF”, or “Unicode Transformation Format.”

What type of encoding is UTF-8?

UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode (or Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format – 8-bit.

What is a UTF-8 encoded file?

Summary. UTF-8 is a compromise character encoding that can be as compact as ASCII (if the file is just plain English text) but can also contain any unicode characters (with some increase in file size). UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. The ‘8’ means it uses 8-bit blocks to represent a character.

Why is UTF-8 a good choice for the default editor encoding?

As a content author or developer, you should nowadays always choose the UTF-8 character encoding for your content or data. This Unicode encoding is a good choice because you can use a single character encoding to handle any character you are likely to need. This greatly simplifies things.

What is UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32?

UTF-8/16/32 are simply different ways to encode this. In brief, UTF-32 uses 32-bit values for each character. That allows them to use a fixed-width code for every character. UTF-16 uses 16-bit by default, but that only gives you 65k possible characters, which is nowhere near enough for the full Unicode set.

How do I open a UTF-8 file?

Programs that open UTF8 files

  1. Microsoft Notepad. Included with OS. Microsoft Wordpad. Included with OS. Microsoft Word 365. gVim. Other text editor.
  2. Apple TextEdit. Included with OS. MacroMates TextMate. MacVim. Other text editor.
  3. Linux. Vim. GNU Emacs. Other text editor.

How do I set HTML to UTF-8?

The character encoding should be specified for every HTML page, either by using the charset parameter on the Content-Type HTTP response header (e.g.: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 ) and/or using the charset meta tag in the file.

How do I create a UTF-8 encoded text file?

Microsoft Word

  1. Click “Save As,” then choose “Plain Text (. txt)” from the “File Format” dropdown menu.
  2. After clicking “Save” you’ll get a new window asking about the text encoding.
  3. Select “Other Encoding” and choose UTF-8 from the right-side menu.
  4. Click OK. Boom! That’s it!