UTF-8

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A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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What Wikipedia says

UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. As of 2026, almost every webpage (99.1%) is transmitted as UTF-8.

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