UTF-8 | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-11-19

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
UTF-8

Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates



SUMMARY
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UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes. The encoding is defined by the Unicode standard, and was originally designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. The name is derived from Unicode (or Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format –  8-bit.It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII, are encoded using a single octet with the same binary value as ASCII, so that valid ASCII text is valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode as well. Since ASCII bytes do not occur when encoding non-ASCII code points into UTF-8, UTF-8 is safe to use within most programming and document languages that interpret certain ASCII characters in a special way, such as "/" in filenames, "\" in escape sequences, and "%" in printf.

UTF-8 is the "mandatory" Unicode character encoding for the World Wide Web; has been the dominant encoding (of any kind) since 2009, and as of  October 2018  accounts for 92.6% of all web pages (some of which are simply ASCII, as it's a subset of UTF-8) and 95.1% of the top 1,000 highest ranked web pages. The next-most popular multi-byte encodings, Shift JIS and GB 2312, have 0.4% and 0.4% respectively. The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) recommended that all e-mail programs be able to display and create mail using UTF-8, and the W3C recommends UTF-8 as the default encoding in XML and HTML.