Question
Which of the two is correct terminology?
Solution
That depends on where you use it...
The name of the encoding is UTF-8
.
A dash is not valid to use everywhere, so for example in .NET framework the property of the System.Text.Encoding
class that returns an instance of the UTF8Encoding
class that handles the UTF-8 encoding is named UTF8
.
OTHER TIPS
It's definitely UTF-8. UTF8 is only used commonly in places where a dash is not allowed (programming language indentifiers) or because people are too lazy.
Following the RFC standard the answer is UTF-8
I believe according to the Unicode Consortium, it's UTF-8.
Also UTF-8 (great and thorough explanation of UTF-8)
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