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{{encyclopedic}}'''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:
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