Hello fellow developer I am tying to understand the basics of uft8 and why i need to use it?
Can you please help me understand?
Valkyrop
May 27, 2022, 11:32pm
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UTF8, stands for : Unicode Transformation Format - 8 bits.You dont need that unless you’re encoding for transferring outside of Roblox [ so no need to worry about that].
Gave a nice & brief explanation, it might be helpful for you.
Here are articles where you could read more aboout it -
If the api reference lacks information on this then you can request it on #platform-feedback:developer-hub .
Probably not if you haven’t even heard of it or haven’t found a use case for it. Just whatever you do, don’t force a use case for it.
First off this info should not even be accessible to clients if it’s “private”. And obfuscation is a waste of time and there is no reason to do it.
UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode (or Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format – 8-bit.
UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064[nb 1] valid character code points in Unicode using one to four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. It was designed for backward compatibility ...
Hey. Lately I’ve seen there’s ‘utf8’ function in Roblox, I heard of UTF-8 but I never really knew what it is.
Can you explain to me what it is, what it’s useful for and why it’s useful?
Thanks.
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