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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Em computação, UTF-16 é um "Formato de Transformação Unicode" de 16-bits. Um formato de transformação Unicode é umacodificação de caracteres que provê uma maneira de representar os diversos caracteresabstratos, presentes no Unicode e no ISO/IEC 10646, como uma série de palavras (neste caso, de 16-bits), para então poder ser armazenados ou transmitidos por uma rede. A codificaçãoUTF-16 é oficialmente definida no Anexo Q do padrão ISO/IEC 10646-1. É também descrita em "The Unicode Standard", versões 3.0 e superiores, bem como no RFC 2781.
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