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UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of
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encoding all 1,112,064 possible characters in Unicode. The encoding is
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variable-length, as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units.
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(also see Comparison of Unicode encodings for a comparison of UTF-8, -16 & -32)
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UTF-16 developed from an earlier fixed-width 16-bit encoding known as UCS-2 (for
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2-byte Universal Character Set) once it became clear that a fixed-width 2-byte
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encoding could not encode enough characters to be truly universal.
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