UTF-16

See also: UTF16

English

Proper noun

UTF-16

1. (computing) Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).

Hyponyms

• UTF-16BE
• UTF-16LE

Related terms

• UTF-7 (mostly obsolete older encoding scheme)
• UTF-8
• UTF-32

See also

• Unicode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia