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What is Unicode 11?
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns a code to every character and symbol in every language in the world. Since no other encoding standard supports all languages, Unicode is the only encoding standard that ensures that you can retrieve or combine data using any combination of languages.
What is utf16 format?
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). The encoding is variable-length, as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units.
How is the Unicode Transformation Format used in Unicode?
The Unicode Transformation Format is one of two encodings used in Unicode, the other one being the Universal Character Set (UCS). They are both used to map the range of Unicode code points into sequences of termed code values.
What are the different types of Unicode encodings?
The Unicode standard defines Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF): UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, and several other encodings.
Which is the mapping method used in Unicode?
Unicode defines two mapping methods: the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings. An encoding maps (possibly a subset of) the range of Unicode code points to sequences of values in some fixed-size range, termed code values.
How are characters represented in the Unicode Standard?
The Unicode encodings are: UTF-8: To meet the requirements of byte-oriented and ASCII-based systems, UTF-8 has been defined by the Unicode Standard. Each character is represented in UTF-8 as a sequence of up to 4 bytes, where the first byte indicates the number of bytes to follow in a multibyte sequence, allowing for efficient string parsing.