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UTF-16 is a way to encode [[Unicode]] text in 16-byte chunks.


UTF-16 is a text encoding format, similiar to ASCII. It is 16 bits wide, thus providing an enormous amount of characters as opposed to ASCII, which can only hold 256. UTF-16 can have 65536 different characters.
== See Also ==


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[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"]
 
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UTF-16 is a way to encode Unicode text in 16-byte chunks.

See Also

Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

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