6.6. Encoding Unicode

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

• https://symbl.cc/en/unicode-table/

>>> text = 'cześć'
>>> text.encode()
b'cze\xc5\x9b\xc4\x87'

6.6.1. UTF-32

• Fixed-length encoding

• 4 bytes per character

• Supports all Unicode characters

>>> text = 'cześć'
>>> text.encode('utf-32')
b'\xff\xfe\x00\x00c\x00\x00\x00z\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00[\x01\x00\x00\x07\x01\x00\x00'

6.6.2. UTF-16

• Fixed-length encoding

• 2 bytes per character

• Supports all Unicode characters

>>> text = 'cześć'
>>> text.encode('utf-16')
b'\xff\xfec\x00z\x00e\x00[\x01\x07\x01'

6.6.3. UTF-8

• Variable-length encoding

• 1 to 4 bytes per character

• Supports all Unicode characters

• Most common encoding for web pages

• Compatible with ASCII

>>> text = 'cześć'
>>> text.encode('utf-8')
b'cze\xc5\x9b\xc4\x87'