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Line 1: ~~{{encyclopedic}}~~[[Category:Encyclopedia]]'''Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit representation''' or UTF-8 is a particular encoding of [[Unicode]] code-points into eight-bit octets. It was originally developed for [[Bell Labs]]' [[Plan 9]] operating system by Ken Thompson (inventor of [[Unix]]) and Rob Pike in 1992. It is widely used on Unix-like systems and for XML documents. Some advantages of UTF-8: Line 5: * subsumes 7-bit ASCII * one can detect the start of characters * one can scan characters in both directions forward and backward * can encode code-points at least 32-bits long