What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?

Question

I have heard conflicting opinions from people - according to the Wikipedia UTF-8 page.

They are the same thing, aren\'t they? Can someone clarify?

Answer 1

Unicode only define code points, that is, a number which represents a character. How you store these code points in memory depends of the encoding that you are using. UTF-8 is one way of encoding Unicode characters, among many others.