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<title abbrev='UTF-8'>UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646</title>
<author initials='F.' surname='Yergeau' fullname='Francois Yergeau'>
<organization>Alis Technologies</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>100, boul. Alexis-Nihon</street>
<street>Suite 600</street>
<city>Montreal</city>
<region>Quebec</region>
<code>H4M 2P2</code>
<country>CA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 514 747 2547</phone>
<facsimile>+1 514 747 2561</facsimile>
<email>fyergeau@alis.com</email></address></author>
<date month='October' year='1996' />
<abstract>
<t>The Unicode Standard, version 1.1, and ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 jointly define a 16 bit character set which encompasses most of the world's writing systems. 16-bit characters, however, are not compatible with many current applications and protocols, and this has led to the development of a few so-called UCS transformation formats (UTF), each with different characteristics.  UTF-8, the object of this memo, has the characteristic of preserving the full US-ASCII range: US-ASCII characters are encoded in one octet having the usual US-ASCII value, and any octet with such a value can only be an US-ASCII character. This provides compatibility with file systems, parsers and other software that rely on US-ASCII values but are transparent to other values.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2044' />
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