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How UTF-8 Encoding works

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Programming

I spoke yesterday about Unicode, and the difference between the Unicode character set, and specific encodings of this character set. This post is a follow-up which describes in detail one particular and popular character set - UTF-8.
It’s imortant to understand that encoding is simply a means of representing a Unicode character in terms of [...]

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BOM - Is it part of the data?

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Programming

This is a post in response to a comment at Ben Nadel’s blog by PaulH which I think is an interesting and important discussion, but sufficiently off-topic to the blog entry at hand that I didn’t want to completely derail the on-topic discussion.
Whereas initially BOM (Byte Order Marker U+FEFF) was intended to indicate the order [...]

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