Character Encoding: UTF-16

Technical information about character encoding standard UTF-16

Technical information about character encoding UTF-16 is available below.

Name

UTF-16

MIME / IANA

UTF-16

Type

2 or 4 bytes (variable-width)

Classification

Unicode

Languages
Virtually all languages in use today
Usage

less than 0.005%

UTF-16 is a character encoding standard that supports a wide range of languages and characters. It was created in the 1990s. It utilizes a variable-width, multi-byte scheme.

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