re "encoded" so that strings containing only non-null ASCII characters, can be represented using only one byte per character, but characters of up to 16 bits can be represented:<P>
All characters in the range 0x0001 to 0x007F are represented by a single byte:<P>
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<CODE>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+</CODE>
<CODE>     |0|7bits of data|</CODE>
<CODE>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+</CODE>
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<BR>The null character (0x0000) and characters in the range 0x0080 to 0x07FF are represented by a pair of two bytes:<P>
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