What is the use of meta charset UTF 8 in HTML?

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

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