What are the character encodings UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 rules

I was wond开发者_C百科ering is there an article that discusses the rules for the character encodings UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?

Can someone also point me to the rules of other character encodings as well?

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Read this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html - it will clear any questions you have about Unicode, Encoding etc.

Edit: B.T.W., I'm not so clear about what you mean by "rules", but this article should clear any questions you have about what UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are.

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UTF-8 on Wikipedia is a good place to start.