em>in a single byte</em>. Only code points 128 and above are stored using 2, 3, in fact, up to 6 bytes.</p>
<p align="center"><img border="1" alt="How UTF-8 works" src="/pictures/unicode/utf8.png" width="400" height="63" /></p>

<p>This has the neat side effect that English text looks <em>exactly the same in UTF-8 as it did in ASCII,</em> so Americans don't even notice anything wrong. Only the rest of the world has to jump through hoops. Specifically, <strong>Hello</strong>, which was U+0048 U+0065 U+006