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What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1? [closed]

What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?

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Jagadesh Avatar asked Aug 13 '11 05:08

Jagadesh


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UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both encode ASCII exactly the same way.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Avatar answered Oct 17 '22 23:10

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