n an email message.</p>

<p><strong><font size="4">Encodings</font></strong></p>

<p>That's where <em>encodings</em> come in.</p>

<p>The earliest idea for Unicode encoding, which led to the myth about the two bytes, was, hey, let's just store those numbers in two bytes each. So Hello becomes</p>

<p align="center">00 48 00 65 00 6C 00 6C 00 6F</p>

<p>Right? Not so fast! Couldn't it also be:</p>

<p align="center">48 00 65 00 6C 00 6C 00 6F 00 ?</p>

<p>Well, technically, yes, I do believe it