UTF-8 Encoding Table - Character Encoding Tables

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â„šī¸ About Character Encodings

UTF-8 is the most widely used encoding on the web. It's backwards compatible with ASCII and can represent any Unicode character.

UTF-16 and UTF-32 use fixed or variable-length multi-byte sequences for Unicode characters.

Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1 are single-byte encodings commonly used in Western European languages.

ASCII is the original 7-bit encoding that represents 128 characters.

📝 Format Examples

Example 1: UTF-8 Character

Character:

Ê (lowercase e with acute)

UTF-8 Bytes:

C3 A9 (2 bytes)

Example 2: Windows-1252 Character

Character:

â‚Ŧ (Euro sign)

Windows-1252 Byte:

80 (1 byte)

Example 3: ASCII Character

Character:

A (uppercase A)

ASCII/UTF-8 Byte:

41 (decimal: 65)

💡 Common Use Cases

  • Converting between different character encodings
  • Debugging encoding issues in web applications
  • Understanding character representation in databases
  • Fixing mojibake and garbled text problems
  • Learning about international character support