UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid
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In the late 1980s, work began on developing a uniform encoding for a "Universal Character Set" (UCS) that would replace earlier language-specific encodings with one coordinated system. The goal was to include a… See more

Each Unicode code point is encoded either as one or two 16-bit code units. Code points less than 2 ("in the BMP") are encoded with a single 16-bit code unit equal to the numerical value of the code point, as in the olde… See more

UTF-16 and UCS-2 produce a sequence of 16-bit code units. Since most communication and storage protocols are defined for bytes, and each unit thus takes two 8-bit bytes, the order of the bytes may depend on … See more

A "character" may use any number of Unicode code points. For instance an emoji flag character takes 8 bytes, since it is "constructed from a pair of Unicode scalar values" (and those values are outside the BMP and r… See more

UTF-16 is used for text in the OS API of all currently supported versions of Microsoft Windows (and including at least all since Windows CE/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 ) including Windows 10. In Windows XP, no code point … See more

• Comparison of Unicode encodings
• Plane (Unicode)
• UTF-8
• CESU-8
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