ARTICLE: "utf16""Working with UTF-16-encoded data"
"The UTF-16 encoding is a variable-width encoding. Unicode code points are encoded as 2 or 4 byte sequences. There are three encoding descriptor classes for working with UTF-16, depending on endianness or the presence of a BOM:"
{ $subsection utf16le }
{ $subsection utf16be }
{ $subsection utf16 }
"All of these conform to the " { $link "encodings-protocol" } ".";
{ $class-description "The encoding protocol for UTF-16LE, that is, UTF-16 in little endian, without a byte order mark. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." } ;
{ $class-description "The encoding protocol for UTF-16BE, that is, UTF-16 in big endian, without a byte order mark. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." } ;
{ $class-description "The encoding protocol for UTF-16, that is, UTF-16 with a byte order mark. This is the most useful for general input and output in UTF-16. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." } ;
