Why is UTF-8 not an encoding for Unicode? From the Unicode website (http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8 http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8):

Why is UTF-8 not an encoding for Unicode? From the Unicode website (http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8 http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8): "UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode." From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8): "UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format — 8-bit[1]) is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set."