Why is an empty string '' encoded into 2 bytes in utf-16 but 0 bytes in utf-8 or ascii?
141625
UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32
108953
Convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 under Windows and Linux, in C
16201
Correctly reading a utf-16 text file into a string without external libraries?
3170
How to repair a serialized string which has been corrupted by an incorrect byte count length?
97732
How can I decode UTF-16 data in Perl when I don't know the byte order?
101928
What is character encoding and why should I bother with it
117298
Why do I need 'b' to encode a string with Base64?
106258
What is the reason that an empty string evaluates to false in Javascript
67869
Writing UTF-8 String to MySQL with Python
101316
How to convert byte array to string and vice versa?
106517
Weird output of [97,98].map(String.fromCharCode)
140085
Make ascii string from utf8 input
78029
Obtaining zero-length string from strtok()
45368
How can I convert a key code into a char or string?
75102
How do I get the raw representation of a string in Python?
105504
Guessing the encoding of text represented as byte[] in Java
32072
PHP: Convert any string to UTF-8 without knowing the original character set, or at least try