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Data Representation — Question 13

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What are UTF-8 and UTF-32 encoding schemes. Which one is more popular encoding scheme ?

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UTF-8 is a variable length encoding scheme that uses different number of bytes to represent different characters whereas UTF-32 is a fixed length encoding scheme that uses exactly 4 bytes to represent all Unicode code points. UTF-8 is the more popular encoding scheme.