> In ASCII every character is a byte, and in Unicode, that’s often not true, a character can be 1, 2, 3, or more bytes. In a similar note, Unicode isn't really

> In ASCII every character is a byte, and in Unicode, that’s often not true, a character can be 1, 2, 3, or more bytes. In a similar note, Unicode isn't really about bytes. Unicode is essentially just a huge map of numbers to characters descriptions. UTF encodings convert those numbers into a sequence of bytes, and vice versa.