"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:"
{ $class-description "The encoding descriptor 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 descriptor 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 descriptor 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." }
{ $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16 without a byte order mark in native endian order. This is useful mostly for FFI calls which take input of strings of the type wchar_t*" }
