Add Charencoding and UTF8

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Angelos Chalaris
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### Character encoding
A character encoding defines a mapping between bytes and text, specifying how the sequenece of bytes should be interpreted.
Two commonly used character encodings are ASCII and UTF-8.

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### UTF-8
UTF-8 stands for UCS Transformation Format 8 and is a commonly used character encoding.
UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII and can represent and standard Unicode character.