Unicode characters are encoded in one of three ways: a 32-bit form (UTF-32), a 16-bit form (UTF-16), or an 8-bit form (UTF-8) (UTF-8).

Before Unicode was introduced, a computer could only process and show the written symbols on its operating system code page, which was connected to a single script.įor example, a computer that can handle French will not be able to process Japanese or Hebrew. Unicode can handle data in a variety of scripts, including French, Japanese, and Hebrew. UTF-8, a variable length encoding method in which one represents each written symbol- to four-byte code, and UTF-16, a fixed width encoding scheme in which a two-byte code represents each written symbol, are the two most prevalent Unicode implementations for computer systems.

XML, Java, JavaScript, LDAP, and other web-based technologies all require Unicode. Unicode is the only encoding system that ensures you may get or combine data using any combination of languages because no other encoding standard covers all languages. Unicode is a character encoding system that assigns a code to every character and symbol in the world's languages. Unicode Converter helps you convert between Unicode character numbers, characters, UTF-8 and UTF-16 code units in hex, percent escapes,and Numeric Character References.