UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding that supports all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length...
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UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation...
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Byte order mark (section UTF-16)
- UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM: Can a UTF-8 data stream contain the BOM character (in UTF-8 form)? If yes, then can I still assume the remaining UTF-8...
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However if a UTF-7 translator is to/from UTF-16 then it can (and probably does)[citation needed] encode each surrogate half as though it was a 16-bit code...
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CESU-8 (redirect from Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16)
The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) is a variant of UTF-8 that is described in Unicode Technical Report #26. A Unicode code point...
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Comparison of Unicode encodings (redirect from UTF-5)
UTF-8 string because it only looks for the ASCII '%' character to define a formatting string. All other bytes are printed unchanged. UTF-16 and UTF-32...
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Unicode (redirect from UTF (Unicode))
Standard itself defines three encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, though several others exist. Of these, UTF-8 is the most widely used by a large margin...
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similar to UTF-8's advantages for existing ASCII-based systems. Details on UTF-EBCDIC are defined in Unicode Technical Report #16. To produce the UTF-EBCDIC...
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UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format), sometimes called UCS-4, is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly...
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encodings, and Unicode encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. The most popular character encoding on the World Wide Web is UTF-8, which is used in 98.2% of surveyed...
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Unicode in Microsoft Windows (section UTF-8)
explicitly to the UTF-16 encoding. Anything else, including UTF-8, is not "Unicode" in Microsoft's outdated language (while UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both Unicode...
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Unicode literals such as char foo[512] = "φωωβαρ"; (UTF-8) or wchar_t foo[512] = L"φωωβαρ"; (UTF-16 or UTF-32, depends on wchar_t) is implementation defined...
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pass a UTF-8 validity test. However, badly written charset detection routines do not run the reliable UTF-8 test first, and may decide that UTF-8 is some...
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Universal Coded Character Set (redirect from UCS-16)
conflicts with other encoding forms. The original edition of the UCS defined UTF-16, an extension of UCS-2, to represent code points outside the BMP. A range...
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historically been used for storing text on the World Wide Web, though by now UTF-8 is dominant, with all languages at 95% use or higher by some estimates...
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Windows code page (section UTF-8, UTF-16)
Windows versions support Unicode, new Windows applications should use Unicode (UTF-8) and not 8-bit character encodings. There are two groups of system code...
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Look up UTF in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. UTF may refer to: Unicode Transformation Format UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 U.T.F. (Undead Task Force)...
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Freytag, Asmus (2015-12-18). "FAQ – UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM". The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2016-05-30. Yes, UTF-8 can contain a BOM. However, it...
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sequence is valid UTF-16 (it allows any sequence of short values, not restricted to those in the Unicode standard). In Win32 namespace, any UTF-16 code units...
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websites in non-Western languages to use UTF-8, which allows use of the same encoding for all languages. UTF-16 or UTF-32, which can be used for all languages...
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Plane (Unicode) (redirect from Plane 16)
of 17 planes is due to UTF-16, which can encode 220 code points (16 planes) as pairs of words, plus the BMP as a single word. UTF-8 was designed with a...
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specific encoding and not destroy any characters. For UTF-8 and UTF-16, this requires internal 16-bit character support. Partial support is indicated if:...
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Unicode standard has two variable-width encodings: UTF-8 and UTF-16 (it also has a fixed-width encoding, UTF-32). Originally, both the Unicode and ISO 10646...
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the filename, such as L"\x00C0.txt" (UTF-16, NFC) (Latin capital A with grave) and L"\x0041\x0300.txt" (UTF-16, NFD) (Latin capital A, grave combining)...
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support, enabling WordPad to support multiple languages, but big endian UTF-16/UCS-2 is not supported. It can open Microsoft Word (versions 6.0–2003) files...
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2 bytes per symbol through non-locking shifts. SCSU can also switch to UTF-16 internally to handle non-alphabetic languages. Reuters originally developed...
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encoding (as in Asian 16-bit encodings vs European 8-bit encodings), or the use of variable length encodings (notably UTF-8 and UTF-16). Failed rendering...
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used. Encodings other than UTF-8 and UTF-16 are not necessarily recognized by every XML parser (and in some cases not even UTF-16, even though the standard...
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historically used UTF-16, and still does only for Java; while for C/C++ UTF-8 is supported, including the correct handling of "illegal UTF-8". ICU 73.2 has...
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