Technical information about character encoding standard UTF-16 (Little Endian)
Technical information about character encoding UTF-16 (Little Endian) is available below.
| Name | UTF-16 (Little Endian) |
| MIME / IANA | UTF-16LE |
| Type | 2 or 4 bytes (variable-width) |
| Classification | |
| Languages | Virtually all languages in use today |
| Usage | less than 0.005% |
UTF-16 LE is a character encoding standard that supports a wide range of languages and characters. It uses a little-endian byte order and was created in the 1990s. It utilizes a variable-width, multi-byte scheme.
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