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  1. computing Unicode Transformation Format-16; A two-byte (16-bit) encoding version of Unicode

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  • “UTF-8 or UTF-16 may fully supplant those two standards for encoding Chinese text.”

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it

  • “UTF-8 bytes, or even UTF-16 double-bytes, are not Unicode codepoints.”

    Snell-Pym » R7RS

  • “Since the first two characters of a JSON text will always be ASCII characters [RFC0020], it is possible to determine whether an octet stream is UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE or LE), or UTF-32 (BE or LE) by looking at the pattern of nulls in the first four octets.”

    Scripting News for 12/20/2006 « Scripting News Annex

  • “UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 and their variants are ways of expressing Unicode using different rules for transforming bytes into characters.”

    The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002

  • “That's because UTF-16 uses two bytes for most complex characters, while UTF-8 can”

    Site Home

  • “· Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16

    Softpedia - Windows - All

  • “You've defined both a UTF-8 format and a UTF-16 format.”

    Planet Python

  • “Are the first two bytest two characters in UTF-8 encoding? or a single character in UTF-16 encoding?”

    Planet Python

  • “· For the wchar_t character type the only valid value for this option is 'auto' and the encoding is automatically selected between UTF-16 and UTF-32, depending on the wchar_t type size.”

    Softpedia - Windows - All

  • “Many text editors claim they support Unicode (UTF-7, UTF-8 and UTF-16), however, they only convert Unicode to the system encoding (or ANSI) internally when they open files, so they cannot actually edit characters that are not supported by the system encoding.”

    2BakSa.Net

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