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Computer-related introductions in 1991
Unicode Transformation Formats

API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

ASCII

ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. UTF-16 and ASCII are character encoding.

See UTF-16 and ASCII

Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

See UTF-16 and Bengali language

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (Brew MP, Brew, Qualcomm BREW, or BREW) was an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phones, featuring third-party applications such as mobile games.

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Byte order mark

The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code,, whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal several things to a program reading the text.

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C Sharp (programming language)

C# is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.

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CCSID

A CCSID (coded character set identifier) is a 16-bit number that represents a particular encoding of a specific code page. UTF-16 and CCSID are character encoding.

See UTF-16 and CCSID

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.

See UTF-16 and CD-ROM

CDMA2000

CDMA2000 (also known as C2K or IMT Multi‑Carrier (IMT‑MC)) is a family of 3G mobile technology standards for sending voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites.

See UTF-16 and CDMA2000

CESU-8

The Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) is a variant of UTF-8 that is described in Unicode Technical Report #26. UTF-16 and CESU-8 are character encoding and Unicode Transformation Formats.

See UTF-16 and CESU-8

Character encoding

Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. UTF-16 and character encoding are encodings.

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CJK characters

In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.

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Code page

In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable characters and control characters with unique numbers. UTF-16 and code page are character encoding.

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Code point

A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning. UTF-16 and code point are character encoding.

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Comparison of Unicode encodings

This article compares Unicode encodings in two types of environments: 8-bit-clean environments, and environments that forbid the use of byte values with the high bit set. UTF-16 and Comparison of Unicode encodings are Unicode Transformation Formats.

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D (programming language)

D, also known as dlang, is a multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright at Digital Mars and released in 2001.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

See UTF-16 and Devanagari

Disjoint sets

In set theory in mathematics and formal logic, two sets are said to be disjoint sets if they have no element in common.

See UTF-16 and Disjoint sets

Dollar sign

The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital crossed with one or two vertical strokes (or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".

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ECMAScript

ECMAScript (ES) is a standard for scripting languages, including JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.

See UTF-16 and ECMAScript

Emoji

An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.

See UTF-16 and Emoji

Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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Euro sign

The euro sign is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro.

See UTF-16 and Euro sign

GB 18030

GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as Information Technology — Chinese coded character set and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China. UTF-16 and gB 18030 are Unicode Transformation Formats.

See UTF-16 and GB 18030

GSM

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.

See UTF-16 and GSM

GSM 03.38

In mobile telephony GSM 03.38 or 3GPP 23.038 is a character encoding used in GSM networks for SMS (Short Message Service), CB (Cell Broadcast) and USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data).

See UTF-16 and GSM 03.38

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM i

IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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International Components for Unicode

International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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ISO 9660

ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media.

See UTF-16 and ISO 9660

ISO/IEC 8859-1

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No.

See UTF-16 and ISO/IEC 8859-1

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that develops and facilitates standards within the field of coded character sets.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Java Platform, Standard Edition

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) is a computing platform for development and deployment of portable code for desktop and server environments.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

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PHP

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.

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Plain text

In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.

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Plane (Unicode)

In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points.

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Qt (software)

Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism) is cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.

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Regional indicator symbol

The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment.

See UTF-16 and Regional indicator symbol

Self-synchronizing code

In coding theory, especially in telecommunications, a self-synchronizing code is a uniquely decodable code in which the symbol stream formed by a portion of one code word, or by the overlapped portion of any two adjacent code words, is not a valid code word.

See UTF-16 and Self-synchronizing code

Shift JIS

Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.

See UTF-16 and Shift JIS

SMS

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.

See UTF-16 and SMS

Swift (programming language)

Swift is a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community.

See UTF-16 and Swift (programming language)

Symbian

Symbian was a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones.

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UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, or as an acronym) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting the computer hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system.

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UIQ

UIQ (formerly known as User Interface Quartz) is a discontinued software platform based upon Symbian OS, created by UIQ Technology AB.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. UTF-16 and Unicode are character encoding.

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Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

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Unicode in Microsoft Windows

Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode in their products.

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Universal Coded Character Set

The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented typing systems are added.

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UTF-16

UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). UTF-16 and UTF-16 are character encoding, computer-related introductions in 1991, encodings and Unicode Transformation Formats.

See UTF-16 and UTF-16

UTF-32

UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly 32 bits (four bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232 Unicode code points, needing actually only 21 bits). UTF-16 and UTF-32 are character encoding and Unicode Transformation Formats.

See UTF-16 and UTF-32

UTF-8

UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. UTF-16 and UTF-8 are character encoding, encodings and Unicode Transformation Formats.

See UTF-16 and UTF-8

Variable-width encoding

A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of symbols) for representation, usually in a computer. UTF-16 and variable-width encoding are character encoding.

See UTF-16 and Variable-width encoding

WHATWG

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies.

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A widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called widgets) used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs.

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Windows 10

Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, is a discontinued operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and embedded devices.

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Windows Insider

Windows Insider is an open software testing program by Microsoft that allows users globally who own a valid license of Windows 11, Windows 10, or Windows Server to register for pre-release builds of the operating system previously only accessible to software developers.

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Windows NT

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows XP

Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Word joiner

The word joiner (WJ) is a Unicode format character which is used to indicate that line breaking should not occur at its position.

See UTF-16 and Word joiner

Xbox

Xbox is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming, and online services such as the Xbox network and Xbox Game Pass.

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.NET Framework

The.NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.

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16-bit computing

16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

Also known as 16-bit characters, AL16UTF16, Code page 1200, Code page 1201, Code page 13488, CsUTF16, CsUTF16BE, CsUTF16LE, Oracle AL16UTF16, Supplementary character, Surrogate pair, Surrogate pairs, UCS 2, UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS2, UTF 16, UTF-16/UCS-2, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF16, UTF16BE, UTF16LE, Unicode 16, Windows-1200, Windows-1201.

, Shift JIS, SMS, Swift (programming language), Symbian, UEFI, UIQ, Unicode, Unicode Consortium, Unicode in Microsoft Windows, Universal Coded Character Set, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, Variable-width encoding, WHATWG, Widget toolkit, Windows 10, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Insider, Windows NT, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Word joiner, Xbox, .NET Framework, 16-bit computing.

UTF-16, the Glossary

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Unicode Transformation Formats

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