There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.

Butler said, '256 is enough variation to represent one byte, which allows you to 'hide' one byte of data in other Unicode code points.' For example, let's say you want to encode the string 'hello ...

I need a function that will convert any string into unicode; that supports things like letters with accents and whatnot.I might have my terminology wrong ...