Proper noun
UTF-32
(computing, Unicode) Unicode Transformation Format-32, a fixed-width encoding for Unicode characters which uses 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode each character.
For UTF-8, the BOM is optional, while it is a must for the UTF-16 and the UTF-32 encodings. Source: Internet
It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in the alternative UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings. Source: Internet
Recent versions of the Python programming language (beginning with 2.2) may also be configured to use UTF-32 as the representation for Unicode strings, effectively disseminating such encoding in high-level coded software. Source: Internet
However UCS-2, UTF-8, and UTF-32 can encode these code points in trivial and obvious ways, and large amounts of software does so even though the standard states that such arrangements should be treated as encoding errors. Source: Internet
Processing applications need only look for an initial 0x0000FEFF, 0xFEFF or 0xEFBBBF in the byte stream to identify the document as UTF-32, UTF-16 or UTF-8 encoded respectively. Source: Internet
UTF-32 avoids the first part of the problem. Source: Internet