In the context of universal character encoding standard, UTF stands

In the context of universal character encoding standard, UTF stands for

Unicode Transformation Format
Unicode Transformation Form
Unique Transformation Format
Unique Transformation Form
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In the context of universal character encoding standard, UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. UTF is a mapping between the Unicode code points (numerical representations of characters) and sequences of bytes.
– Unicode is a standard for encoding, representing, and handling text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.
– UTF encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 are variable-length encoding schemes for Unicode.
– UTF-8 is the most common encoding used on the web and for general-purpose text files because it is backward-compatible with ASCII and efficient for commonly used characters.
– UTF-16 uses 16-bit code units and is used by systems like Windows and Java.
– UTF-32 uses a fixed 32-bit code unit for every character.
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