📅︎ 10.02.2022 📝︎ 01.02.2023 ✏︎ by Evy ⏱︎ 27 min ±10% Inventing UTF-8 This blog post is the result of many discussions about the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding formats. Weighing ups and downs of either. To meaningfully compare different design decisions, however, it is important to understand why these formats were designed the way they were. And what better way of understanding their designs than by reïnventing them yourself?