![]() UTF16 – Each code point is represented as 2 or more bytes.Higher values are represented as 2 to 4 bytes. The first 128 code points are represented as single bytes, this makes it compatible with ASCII encoding. ![]() UTF8 – A popular encoding and the default encoding in B4X tools.You cannot safely read text from a file unless you know its encoding. Remember that files are always made of bytes. Unicode encoding – the format in which the code point numbers are encoded as bytes.'black woman teacher emoji is actually made of 4 code points: woman, dark skin tone, zero width joiner and school. Log("אֶראֶל".Length) 'output is 6 (4 letters and two diacritics marks). Some code points represent other text features such as diacritics marks and joiners. Code point – a number between 0 to 1M+.Unicode covers many complexities involved with text representation, however from a developer perspective, most of these complexities are solved by the underlying OS as long as we follow best practices. There are more than 1 million code points (~characters) in Unicode mapping. The days where 127 English characters (ASCII) were enough for computer programs have gone long ago. Unicode is a standard for text representation and encoding.
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