UTF-16
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UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding that supports all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length as code points are encoded with one or two code units. UTF-16 arose from an earlier obsolete fixed-width 16-bit encoding now known as UCS-2 (for 2-byte Universal Character Set), once it became clear that more than 216 (65,536) code points were needed, including most emoji and important CJK characters such as for personal and place names.
Key facts
- Character encoding.name
- UTF-16
- Character encoding.mime
- • text/plain;charset=UTF-16• text/plain; charset=utf-16le• text/plain; charset=utf-16be
- Character encoding.image
- UTF-16 encoding.svg
- Character encoding.caption
- Example of Unicode character encoding through UTF-16
- Character encoding.standard
- Unicode Standard
- Character encoding.classification
- Unicode Transformation Format, variable-width encoding
- Character encoding.lang
- International
- Character encoding.encodes
- ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)
- Character encoding.extends
- UCS-2
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Wikidata facts
- Follows
- UCS-2
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/utf-16
- different from
- Unicode
- data size
- 16
- Commons category
- UTF-16
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UTF-16 (ang. 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) – jeden ze sposobów kodowania znaków standardu Unicode. Sposób ten wymaga użycia szesnastobitowych słów, przy czym dla znaków na pozycjach poniżej U+10000 (dziesiętnie 65536), a dokładnie w zakresach od U+0000 do U+D7FF i U+E000 do U+FFFF, używane jest jedno słowo, którego wartość odpowiada dokładnie pozycji znaku w standardzie. W systemach Windows kodowanie to jest najczęściej używane do wewnętrznego przechowywania komunikatów Unicode.
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