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

If I may summarise what I gathered from this thread:

Unicode 'translates' characters to ordinal numbers (in decimal form).

à = 224

UTF-8 is an encoding that 'translates' these numbers to binary representations.

224 = 11000011 10100000

Note that we're talking about the binary representation of 224, not its binary form, which is 0b11100000.