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Re:Database character sets and collations explained – why ut... by kangalioo on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:41PM (#29816172)
In UTF-8, only some bits are used for the actual character codes. The rest are control bits for the decoder to know where a character starts and ends.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Encoding

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