UTF-7
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UTF-7 (7-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is an obsolete variable-length character encoding for representing Unicode text using a stream of ASCII characters. It was originally intended to provide a means of encoding Unicode text for use in Internet E-mail messages that was more efficient than the combination of UTF-8 with quoted-printable.
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- UTF-7
- Character encoding.lang
- International <!-- Not
- Character encoding.extends
- ASCII as even plain ASCII text can be reinterpreted. -->
- Character encoding.encodes
- ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)
- Character encoding.prev
- HZ-GB-2312
- Character encoding.next
- UTF-8 over 8BITMIME
- Character encoding.classification
- Unicode Transformation Format, ASCII armor, variable-width encoding, stateful encoding
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Wikidata facts
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/utf-7
- data size
- 7
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