Text File encoding schemes

[Corenat Rovarnus]

UTF-8. ANSI. Unicode. I've seen these terms and more in passing whilst editing many files in notepad and other plaintext editors, but I never truly knew what they meant until I read this article. This is relevant to pretty much any text you see on a computer. Except if its in an image.
http://kunststube.net/encoding/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/