UTF-16

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Usage

CESU-8 API Microsoft Windows Windows CE Windows CE 5.0

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History

UCS ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Unicode Consortium IEEE UCS-4

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Description

UTF-16 surrogate range Emoji Disjoint Shift JIS CVE

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Byte-order encoding schemes

Endianness Byte order mark Zero-width non-breaking space Noncharacter Internet

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Classification: Unicode Transformation Format, variable-width encoding
Extends: UCS-2
Language: International
MIME / IANA: • text/plain;charset=UTF-16 • text/plain; charset=utf-16le • text/plain; charset=utf-16be
Standard: Unicode Standard
Transforms / Encodes: ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)

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Overview

16-bit 16-bit computing
Unicode
Character encoding
Code points Code point
Variable-length Variable-width encoding
CJK characters
Windows API
Java Java programming language
Qt Qt (software)
ASCII
UTF-8
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) WHATWG

History

UCS Universal Coded Character Set
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
Unicode Consortium
IEEE
UCS-4
IETF
ISO/IEC 10646
Self-synchronizing code
Basic Multilingual Plane Plane (Unicode)

Description

UTF-16 surrogate range Universal Character Set characters
Emoji
Disjoint Disjoint sets
Shift JIS
CVE CVE (identifier)
UTF-32

Byte-order encoding schemes

Endianness
Byte order mark
Zero-width non-breaking space
Noncharacter
Internet
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Efficiency

Devanagari
Bengali Bengali language

Usage

CESU-8
API
Microsoft Windows
Windows CE
Windows CE 5.0
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows 9x
VFAT
WDM Windows Driver Model
Windows 10 version 1903
Insider build Windows Insider
Windows File Explorer
IBM i
CCSID
Code page
Qualcomm BREW Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
.NET .NET Framework
Widget toolkit
Joliet file system Joliet (file system)
CD-ROM
NTFS
ReFS
SMS
3GPP TS 23.038 GSM 03.38
GSM
CDMA CDMA2000
Symbian OS Symbian
UIQ
IPhone

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Nodes83

Edges82

Triples126

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.024096

Components1

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UTF-16

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related to Operating systems · 17

UTF-16 → API, CCSID, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, OS API, Since Windows, The IBM, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF-16 API, UTF-8, VFAT, WDM, Windows, Windows CE, Windows File Explorer, Windows NT

related to Programming languages · 14

UTF-16 → All, CPython, ISO-8859-1, J2SE, Java, Java I/O, Modified UTF-8, Python, There, UCS-2, Unicode, Unix, UTF-32, UTF-8

related to Messaging · 11

UTF-16 → CDMA, Emoji, GSM, IS-637, Nokia S60, SMS, Sony Ericsson UIQ, Symbian OS, The, TS, UCS-2

related to U+0000 to U+D7FF and U+E000 to U+FFFF · 10

UTF-16 → African, As, Basic Multilingual Plane, BMP, Both UTF-16, Latin Asian, Middle-Eastern, These, UCS-2, Unicode

related to U+D800 to U+DFFF (surrogates) · 10

UTF-16 → However, It, Since, The, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF, UTF-32, UTF-8, Windows

related to Byte-order encoding schemes · 9

UTF-16 → BOM, FEFF, FFFE, If, Since, This, To, UCS-2, ZWNBSP

related to Efficiency · 7

UTF-16 → Bengali, Devanagari, East Asian, Since, This, Unicode, UTF-8

related to External links · 7

UTF-16 → ISO, ProcessingUnicode FAQ, String, Technical Note, UCS-2, Unicode Character Name IndexRFC, What

related to Description · 6

UTF-16 → BMP, Code, Each Unicode, These, UCS-2, Values

related to File systems · 6

UTF-16 → CD-ROM, NTFS, ReFS, The Joliet, UCS-2BE, Unicode

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Important terminology

code encoding utf-8 ucs-2 character unicode 16-bit points surrogate characters used point two bytes units use windows since also standard

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
UTF-16	Classification	Unicode Transformation Format, variable-width encoding	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	Extends	UCS-2	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	Language	International	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	MIME / IANA	• text/plain;charset=UTF-16 • text/plain; charset=utf-16le • text/plain; charset=utf-16be	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	Standard	Unicode Standard	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	Transforms / Encodes	ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)	1.00	infobox
UTF-16	is a	only encoding	0.90	text
for personal	instance of	including most emoji and important CJK characters	0.80	text
place names.UTF-16 is used by the Windows API	instance of	including most emoji and important CJK characters	0.80	text
and by many programming environments such as Java	instance of	including most emoji and important CJK characters	0.80	text
Qt	instance of	including most emoji and important CJK characters	0.80	text
science	instance of	as well as symbols from technical domains	0.80	text

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