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What is UTF-8 and UTF-16? Which one should I use for conversion?
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UTF-8 and UTF-16 are 2 different ways for representing your unicode characters. To briefly
touch on the technical side, in UTF-8, anywhere between one to four 8-bit units are used to
represent a particular unicode character. In UTF-16, 16 bit units are used to represent (in
either big-endian or little-endian format) a particular unicode character. [There is also UTF-32
format which is mostly used in Unix only].
As such, UTF-8 is the most popular and standard format for Web Pages. So, if you are
designing web pages, you can opt for conversion to UTF-8 format always (which is the default
setting in azhagi's 'unicode converter'). For other purposes, you may choose UTF-8 or UTF-16
according to your specifications and requirements.
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