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Abstract

UTF-8: Properties and Usage

Martin Dürst - W3C/Keio University

Intended Audience: Software Engineers, Content Developers
Session Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Because of it's many appealing properties, UTF-8 is the encoding form of choice for Unicode in many cases. This presentation examines and explains the structure and properties of UTF-8 in detail, using examples and experiments. The conditions for the best use of UTF-8, including security issues, and UTF-8's actual wide use in standards and in practice are discussed. The talk also covers the details of the definition of UTF-8 by the Unicode Standard, by ISO/IEC 10646, and by the IETF (RFC 2279), recent tightening and clarification efforts, and things that might look like UTF-8, but are not UTF-8.


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