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UTF-16

format for transforming texts encoded with one or two 16-bit code units per character of the universal character set defined by the ISO/IEC 10646 standard and the Unicode Standard
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UTF-16

Summary

UTF-16 is an Unicode transformation format[1]. UTF-16 draws 510 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_transformation_format category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • UTF-16's instance of is recorded as Unicode transformation format[3].
  • UTF-16's follows is recorded as UCS-2[4].
  • UTF-16's Commons category is recorded as UTF-16[5].
  • UTF-16's has part is recorded as surrogate[6].
  • UTF-16's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b1gl[7].
  • UTF-16's described at URL is recorded as https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=unicode-utf-16[8].
  • UTF-16's described at URL is recorded as https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.1?topic=unicode-ucs-2-its-relationship-utf-16[9].
  • UTF-16's described by source is recorded as RFC 2781: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646[10].
  • UTF-16's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/utf-16[11].
  • UTF-16's different from is recorded as UCS-2[12].
  • UTF-16's different from is recorded as Unicode[13].
  • UTF-16's uses is recorded as surrogate pair[14].
  • UTF-16's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as UTF-16[15].
  • UTF-16's data size is recorded as {'unit': 'Q8805', 'amount': '+16'}[16].
  • UTF-16's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.0.10646.1.0.5[17].
  • UTF-16's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.0.10646.0.0.5[18].
  • UTF-16's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 201328131[19].
  • UTF-16's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as utf-16[20].
  • UTF-16's NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID is recorded as NF00884[21].
  • UTF-16's Valve Developer Community article ID is recorded as UTF-16[22].

Why It Matters

UTF-16 draws 510 Wikipedia views per month (unicode_transformation_format category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] UTF-16 has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] UTF-16 is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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