UTF-8 Encoding Table - Character Encoding Tables
Browse and compare UTF-8, ASCII, and other character encodings
Popular Character Encodings
ASCII
US-ASCII (7-bit)
UTF-8
Unicode UTF-8
UTF-16
Unicode UTF-16 LE
UTF-32
Unicode UTF-32
Windows-1252
Western European
Windows-1250
Central European
ISO-8859-1
Latin-1
ISO-8859-15
Latin-9 with Euro
Big5
Traditional Chinese
UTF-7
7-bit Unicode
iοΈ About Character Encodings
UTF-8 is the most widely used encoding on the web. It's backwards compatible with ASCII and can represent any Unicode character.
UTF-16 and UTF-32 use fixed or variable-length multi-byte sequences for Unicode characters.
Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1 are single-byte encodings commonly used in Western European languages.
ASCII is the original 7-bit encoding that represents 128 characters.
π Format Examples
Example 1: UTF-8 Character
Character:
Γ© (lowercase e with acute)
UTF-8 Bytes:
C3 A9 (2 bytes)
Example 2: Windows-1252 Character
Character:
β¬ (Euro sign)
Windows-1252 Byte:
80 (1 byte)
Example 3: ASCII Character
Character:
A (uppercase A)
ASCII/UTF-8 Byte:
41 (decimal: 65)
π‘ Common Use Cases
- Converting between different character encodings
- Debugging encoding issues in web applications
- Understanding character representation in databases
- Fixing mojibake and garbled text problems
- Learning about international character support