# UTF-8

> variable-width encoding (into one to four bytes) and transformation format of code points for the universal character set defined by ISO/IEC 10646 and The Unicode® Standard, compatible with ASCII

**Wikidata**: [Q193537](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193537)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/utf-8


## References

1. [Source](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt)
2. [utf-8 · GitHub Topics](https://github.com/topics/utf-8)