UTF-8 Encode/Decode

View UTF-8 byte sequences and convert between UTF-8, UTF-16, and other encodings.

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How to Use UTF-8 Encode/Decode

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UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding that can represent every Unicode character.

1-4 bytes depending on the character (ASCII = 1 byte, emoji = 4 bytes).

UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes and is most common on the web; UTF-16 uses 2-4 bytes.