Yes, to the Unicode format. UTF-8 is encoding to translate numbers into binary. Unicode is a character set for translating characters into numbers and UTF-16 is 16-bit encoding, variable-width. They are different things and Microsoft have their own
definition, due to a long history. Unicode is now the second most popular format and popular with non-Windows developers. So I presume Unicode ingress format means a wider appeal.
There are lots of string encoding/decoding methods in most languages, such as system.Web.httputility. Loads of libraries for C++, etc which ye olde search tool will provide.
Regards,
Pete
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