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Unicode transformation format 16 (UTF-16)
A multibyte encoding for text that represents each Unicode character with 2 or 4 bytes; it is not backward-compatible with ASCII. It is the internal form of Unicode in many programming languages, such as Java, C#, and JavaScript, and in many operating systems. More technically: (1) The UTF-16 encoding form. (2) The UTF-16 encoding scheme. (3) "Transformation format for 16 planes of Group 00," defined in Annex C of ISO/IEC 10646:2003; technically equivalent to the definitions in the Unicode Standard.
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