Editing Character encoding (section)

===Example===
Consider a [[String (computer science)|string]] of the letters "ab̲c𐐀"—that is, a string containing a Unicode combining character ({{unichar|0332}}) as well as a supplementary character ({{unichar|10400}}). This string has several Unicode representations which are logically equivalent, yet while each is suited to a diverse set of circumstances or range of requirements:
* Four [[Character (computing)|composed characters]]:
*:{{code|a}}, {{code|b̲}}, {{code|c}}, {{code|𐐀}}
* Five [[grapheme]]s:
*:{{code|a}}, {{code|b}}, {{code|_}}, {{code|c}}, {{code|𐐀}}
* Five Unicode [[code point]]s:
*:{{code|U+0061}}, {{code|U+0062}}, {{code|U+0332}}, {{code|U+0063}}, {{code|U+10400}}
* Five UTF-32 code units (32-bit integer values):
*:{{code|0x00000061}}, {{code|0x00000062}}, {{code|0x00000332}}, {{code|0x00000063}}, {{code|0x00010400}}
* Six UTF-16 code units (16-bit integers)
*:{{code|0x0061}}, {{code|0x0062}}, {{code|0x0332}}, {{code|0x0063}}, {{code|0xD801}}, {{code|0xDC00}}
* Nine UTF-8 code units (8-bit values, or [[byte]]s)
*:{{code|0x61}}, {{code|0x62}}, {{code|0xCC}}, {{code|0xB2}}, {{code|0x63}}, {{code|0xF0}}, {{code|0x90}}, {{code|0x90}}, {{code|0x80}}

Note in particular that 𐐀 is represented with either one 32-bit value (UTF-32), two 16-bit values (UTF-16), or four 8-bit values (UTF-8). Although each of those forms uses the same total number of bits (32) to represent the glyph, it is not obvious how the actual numeric byte values are related.