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<p>Unicode simply assigns an integer to each character. UTF-8 or others are used to encode these integers ("code points") to a sequence of bytes to be stored in the memory. My question is that why can't we simply store the character as the binary representation of its Unicode value (the "code point") ? Consequently, some languages have characters that require multiple bytes to represent them. Isn't it more easier to store them just as the binary of their code points ?</p>
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1. COI don't understand what you mean by "Binary of their code points"? Isn't that exactly what's happening already?
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2. COThe exact binary of the code points would require 4 bytes always, but that's not what happens in UTF-8 or UTF-16, if I am not mistaken. Some characters are encoded in less than 4 bytes. I meant exactly their binary. Sorry for the confusion.
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