# CGX#: UTF8

[Unicode]()
is the character encoding we use today.
There are several encodings that map numbers to unicode
[codepoints]().
The most popular is UTF8.

If you do not understand this, please watch our lesson about
[ASCII]()
first.


## UTF8 Topics

 - Unicode
 - UTF8/16/32
 - Performance
 - Collations
 - Transpile
 - Look-Alikes
 - Composites