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* [http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#14 Unicode FAQ: What is the difference between UCS-2 and UTF-16?] | * [http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#14 Unicode FAQ: What is the difference between UCS-2 and UTF-16?] | ||
* [http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF16 Unicode UTF-16 FAQ] | * [http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF16 Unicode UTF-16 FAQ] |
Revision as of 01:59, 29 November 2012
UCS Transformation Format—16-bit (UTF-16) is a 16-bit character encoding capable of encoding Unicode code points U+0000 through 0+10FFFF. It makes use of a byte order mark to determine whether the encoding is big endian or little endian.
Specifications
- RFC 2781 (2000-02)
- Unicode 6.0, Chapter 3 (2011) — §3.9 D91; §3.10 D96–D98, Table 3-9
- ISO/IEC 10646:2003 Annex Q (2003)