INFO

A way of encoding codepoint numbers that will correspond to a specific character or symbol (including ASCII)

  • Backwards compatible with ASCII → The encoding for 1 byte is the same for the encoding for ASCII
1 Byte0xxxxxxx(ASCII)
2 Byte110xxxxx10xxxxxx
3 Byte1110xxxx10xxxxxx10xxxxxx
4 Byte11110xxx10xxxxxx10xxxxxx10xxxxxx