Talk:A-level Computing 2009/AQA/Problem Solving, Programming, Data Representation and Practical Exercise/Fundamentals of Data Representation/Unicode

The UTF table has various comfusions about lengths. Whilst 256 is the number of values in a 8 bit variable, UTF-8 uses 1 byte for the first 128 values and multiple bytes for higher values. It is designed to have a maximum of 34359738367 with 6 bytes to match UTF-16. UTF-16 can use two or four bytes depending on value. The Textbook only talks about UCS-2 which is a far simpler encoding 31.222.208.187 (discuss) 09:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)