If UTF-8 is 8 bits, does it not mean that there can be only maximum of 256 different characters?
The first 128 code points are the same as in ASCII. But it says UTF-8 can support up to million of characters?
How does this work?
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If UTF-8 is 8 bits, does it not mean that there can be only maximum of 256 different characters?
The first 128 code points are the same as in ASCII. But it says UTF-8 can support up to million of characters?
How does this work?
UTF-8 does not use one byte all the time, it’s 1 to 4 bytes.
source: Wikipedia