UTF-16

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January 2024

UTF-16 is a way to encode Unicode characters in 16-bit (2 byte) chunks. Characters using UTF-16 encoding can be stored in wchar_t variables or arrays, or wstring objects, but may not handle surrogates properly if mishandled.

See also

• UTF-16 article on Wikipedia
• Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

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