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

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Examples

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

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

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

    Snell-Pym » R7RS 2009

  • 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 2006

  • 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 Jim Tinsley

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

    Site Home EricLaw [MSFT] 2011

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

    Planet Python 2010

  • · 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 Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • 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 2010

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

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

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

    Planet Python 2010

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