**Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit [[binary]]-to-character encoding. The king [[character encoding]] schema for modern files.** UTF-8 is what runs the web. It's what you should use to make [[Durable File Types|durable files]]. It builds on ASCII, (it's a superset of it) and adds Unicode Characters. It uses "blocks", 8 bits in length, to represent characters. These blocks can be chained together to reach higher numbers of characters. UTF-8 takes the 7 bit ASCII table and says "if the 8th bit is a 1, look at the *next byte* to determine how to decode this character". Thus, characters are between 1 and 4 bytes long. **** # More ## Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 ## Related - [[Data Serialization Methods]] - [[UUID]] ,