UTF-16

March 10, 2020 · View on GitHub

UTF-16 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to two 16-bit code units, this can also be expressed as 2 or 4 bytes¹

[1] UTF-16, Wikipedia. (2020). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UTF-16&oldid=940679308 (accessed March 10, 2020).