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CESU-8

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CESU-8

Summary

CESU-8 is an Unicode encoding[1]. CESU-8 draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_encoding category, ranking #2 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • CESU-8's instance of is recorded as Unicode encoding[3].
  • CESU-8's based on is recorded as UTF-8[4].
  • CESU-8's based on is recorded as UTF-16[5].
  • CESU-8's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2001-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • CESU-8's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06xxyj[7].
  • CESU-8's described at URL is recorded as https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/[8].
  • CESU-8's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit'}[9].
  • CESU-8's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'CESU-8'}[10].

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Designation and Status

CESU-8's instance of is recorded as Unicode encoding[3].

Why It Matters

CESU-8 draws 20 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_encoding category, ranking #2 of 2).[2] CESU-8 has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). CESU-8. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cesu-8
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cesu-8_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{CESU-8}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cesu-8}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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