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UTF-16

UTF-16 proper noun: 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).

Proper noun

UTF-16

  1. (Unicode) 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).

Questions about UTF-16

What does UTF-16 mean?
UTF-16 means 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).
What part of speech is UTF-16?
UTF-16 is a proper noun.

Words near UTF-16 in the dictionary

  1. uterus didelphys
  2. uteruses
  3. uteruslike
  4. utes
  5. UTF
  6. UTF-16
  7. UTF-32
  8. UTF-7
  9. UTF-8
  10. UTF16
  11. UTF7

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