What does UTF-8 means?

Question

<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

Thanks for any help:)

Answer 1

ok so what 8 bits stends for then?

Answer 2

We know that every character is saved in memory in binary form but inorder to decode it we must have format from which we know that how many bits and what is their conversion to decimal value implies which character??
So in above we have 8 bits format which will show 2^8 characters.

Answer 3

ok thanks

Answer 4

UTF-8 is encoding format which represents a character in 8 bits.