confused with all these terms

Can someone help me understand all these terms and so it remains in my thick
head ?
I keep hearing Unicode,Collation,Codepages,UTF-8,UTF-16,sort order
Can one tell me whats the standard collation we install ? whats UTF-8 and
16, do we use that ?http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/intlfeaturesinsqlserver2000.htm
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> Can someone help me understand all these terms and so it remains in my thick
> head ?
> I keep hearing Unicode,Collation,Codepages,UTF-8,UTF-16,sort order
> Can one tell me whats the standard collation we install ? whats UTF-8 and
> 16, do we use that ?
>