Encoding question

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Hello.

Can someone help me with the diff between UTF8 and Unicode encoding ?
I know both use 8 bits, both can use more then 2 Bytes (?)

Thanks.
 
UTF-8 is a unicode encoding format that can be upto 32 bits per character if
the complexity of the data being encoded requires it, but for standard
characters is 8 bits.
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This is really total confusion.
Short story: Unicode is code page (collection of characters, each character
with an associated value). Unicode uses the term "code point", because
what Unicode encodes are not only "characters".
A valid character value can be between 0x0000-0x10FFFF.

UTF8, UTF16, UTF32 are different ways of representing Unicode.
One Unicode code point can be between 1 and 4 bytes in UTF8, 2 or 4 bytes as
utf16, 4 bytes as utf32.
utf8, 16, 32 are different ways to represent Unicode.
Same as binary, octal, hex, decimal, BCD are different way of representing
numbers.
 
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