Week 9: Text Processing Algorithms, Approximation (12)

UTF-8

Most common Unicode standard
Specifies mapping of around 150,000 characters
ASCII-compatible
- 0b0xxxxxxx ASCII letters 0-127
Two, three and four byte long characters
- 0b110xxxxxxxxxxxxx most Latin-script alphabets
- 0xEXXXXX Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters
- 0xFXXXXXXX mathematical symbols, emojis
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