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		bombcar on Feb 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs... What is a Unicode transformation format?

e-dt on Feb 20, 2022 [–]

It's an encoding that encodes all of Unicode. The "UTF" in UTF-8, etc. stands for Unicode Transformation Format.

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