Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question Unicode has a million icon-like glyphs, but they’re very hard to search. Is there a Unicode … Read more
This question already has answers here: What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode? (18 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Consider: Is it true that unicode=utf16? Many are saying Unicode is a standard, not an encoding, but most editors support save as Unicode encoding actually. 9 Answers 9
We have a project in Team Foundation Server (TFS) that has a non-English character (š) in it. When trying to script a few build-related things we’ve stumbled upon a problem – we can’t pass the š letter to the command-line tools. The command prompt or what not else messes it up, and the tf.exe utility … Read more
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What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers? 2 Answers 2
What’s the basis for Unicode and why the need for UTF-8 or UTF-16? I have researched this on Google and searched here as well, but it’s not clear to me. In VSS, when doing a file comparison, sometimes there is a message saying the two files have differing UTF’s. Why would this be the case? … Read more
What’s the exact difference between Unicode and ASCII? ASCII has a total of 128 characters (256 in the extended set). Is there any size specification for Unicode characters? 9 s 9 Understanding why ASCII and Unicode were created in the first place helped me understand the differences between the two. ASCII, Origins As stated in … Read more
What are the differences between UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32? I understand that they will all store Unicode, and that each uses a different number of bytes to represent a character. Is there an advantage to choosing one over the other? 14 s 14 UTF-8 has an advantage in the case where ASCII characters represent the … Read more
I have heard conflicting opinions from people – according to the Wikipedia UTF-8 page. They are the same thing, aren’t they? Can someone clarify? 18 s 18 Let me use an example to illustrate this topic: A Chinese character: 汉 its Unicode value: U+6C49 convert 6C49 to binary: 01101100 01001001 Nothing magical so far, it’s … Read more
What’s different between UTF-8 and UTF-8 without a BOM? Which is better? 2Best Answer 21 The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM is used to signal … Read more
