Come pick up a free place to talk about the UTF-8 and UTF-16 coding algorithms for Gitchat activities

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Character encoding is one of the most fundamental, important, and confusing topics in the computer world. However, in the computer textbooks are often superficial, and even a dedicated in-depth introduction of the monograph can not find (to this point I have been very confused, why no one Daniel on this basis, important and so easily confusing subject to write a monograph to introduce it).

The fundamental and importance of character encoding is mainly embodied in its wide-ranging coverage. Downward touches the underlying technology of the computer, even the hardware implementation, which is closely related to almost all operating systems, programming languages, and applications. and character encoding is one of the most confusing themes, because of the historical reasons caused by the same concept of confusion, mess terminology mixed, understanding confusion.

In programming practice, if you do not carry forward the spirit of the dead knock in the context of the problem of character coding, past life thoroughly clear, then it will eventually be like a ghost lingering, resulting in a variety of character encoding related to the "supernatural" events are tortured to death.

I was in the character encoding brought about by the collapse of the pain, only in the bitter experience, the final pain determined, vowed to root planing it to the bottom. (To this end, I also specifically wrote a "root planing to the bottom character code" series of articles, currently published in the blog Park 13).

As the Unicode character set unifies the global character, the UTF encoding is becoming a globally recognized character encoding method. Among them, the most widely used is UTF-8 encoding mode and UTF-16 encoding mode. Therefore, in-depth understanding of UTF-8 and UTF-16 coding algorithms (especially the UTF-16 agent of the coding algorithm rather "wonderful"), thoroughly understand how they are encoded, is a required course for every programmer.

However, unfortunately, although there are a huge number of articles on the Internet, but basically not fully understand (basically not to avoid conceptual confusion, terminology mixing, understanding confusion), and there are many errors (including the Wikipedia entry and the answer to the great God is clearly wrong).

To this end, I am going to organize an article, published on the Gitchat, will UTF-8 and UTF-16 exactly how to encode the coding algorithm completely clear. QR code above, you can open the relevant activity page.

Come pick up a free place to talk about the UTF-8 and UTF-16 coding algorithms for Gitchat activities