In our interconnected world, seamlessly communicating across languages is more important than ever. This is where UTF-8, a character encoding standard, steps in as the invisible hero, ensuring that all kinds of characters, from Latin letters to Chinese ideograms, are represented accurately. The Challenge of Character Encoding: Computers store information as numbers. When it comes to text, each character needs a unique numerical code to be displayed correctly. Here’s where character encoding comes in – it defines how these codes translate to the characters we see on our screens. Earlier encoding schemes, like ASCII, were limited to representing a small […]