What are the differences between UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32?
I understand that they will store all Unicode, and that each character uses a different number of bytes to represent. Is there any advantage of choosing one over the other?
There is an advantage in the case of UTF-8 ASCII characters represent the majority of characters in the block of text Because UTF-8 encodes all characters in 8 bits (such as ASCII). It is also beneficial that an UTF-8 file containing an ATCII character encoding similar to the ASCII file.
UTF-16 is better where ASCII is not the principal, because it uses 2 bytes in each character, mainly. UTF-8 will start using 3 or more bytes for high order characters, where UTF-16 lives on only 2 bytes for most characters.
UTF-32 will cover all possible characters in 4 bytes. This makes it very bloated I can not think of any benefit to use it.
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