What does UTF 8 encoding mean?

Related questions

1. Why do we use UTF 8?
2. What is encoding used for?
3. What is the use of meta charset UTF 8 in HTML?
4. Is UTF 8 a character?
5. What does character encoding do?
6. What is UTF in HTML?
7. What is difference between UTF 8 and utf16?
8. How many UTF 8 characters are there?
9. What is the meaning of UTF 8 in HTML?
10. What is UTF in XML?

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1. #designed
2. #capable
3. #points
4. #bytes
5. #standard
6. #unicode
7. #thompson
8. #width
9. #encoding
10. #using
11. #valid
12. #defined
13. #variable
14. #originally
15. #character