What is IE UTF-8?

UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding used for electronic communication. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points in Unicode using one to four one-byte (8-bit) code units.

What is UTF full form?

Stands for “Unicode Transformation Format.” UTF refers to several types of Unicode character encodings, including UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. UTF-7 – uses 7 bits for each character. It was designed to represent ASCII characters in email messages that required Unicode encoding.

What is the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16?

UTF-8 can represent any character in the Unicode standard. UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. UTF-8 is the preferred encoding for e-mail and web pages UTF-16 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, capable of encoding the entire Unicode repertoire.

What is UTF-8 character encoding?

UTF-8 is the most common character encoding method used on the internet today, and is the default character set for HTML5. Over 95% of all websites, likely including your own, store characters this way.

How does HTML Purifier deal with UTF-8?

HTML Purifier is built to deal with UTF-8: any indications otherwise are the result of an encoder that converts text from your preferred encoding to UTF-8, and back again. HTML Purifier never touches anything else, and leaves it up to the module iconv to do the dirty work. This approach, however, is not perfect.

What is the BoM in UTF-8?

The BOM, or Byte Order Mark, is a magical, invisible character placed at the beginning of UTF-8 files to tell people what the encoding is and what the endianness of the text is. It is also unnecessary. Because it’s invisible, it often catches people by surprise when it starts doing things it shouldn’t be doing.