UTF-8 encoding is a variable-width character encoding system that brilliantly represents millions of characters while maintaining backward compatibility with ASCII. The encoding uses 1-4 bytes per character, with ASCII characters using single bytes and other characters requiring multiple bytes, following specific bit patterns to determine character length and value.

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