What does UTF-16 mean?

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. The encoding is variable-length, as code points are encoded with one or two 16-bit code units (also see Comparison of Unicode encodings for a comparison of UTF-8,…

How do I use World UTF16 decoder?

World’s simplest online UTF16 decoder for web developers and programmers. Just paste your UTF16-encoded data in the form below, press the UTF16 Decode button, and you’ll get human-readable text.

What is UTF-16 self-synchronizing?

It also means that UTF-16 is self-synchronizing on 16-bit words: whether a code unit starts a character can be determined without examining earlier code units (i.e. the type of code unit can be determined by the ranges of values in which it falls).

What is a BOM in UTF-16?

To assist in recognizing the byte order of code units, UTF-16 allows a Byte Order Mark (BOM), a code point with the value U+FEFF, to precede the first actual coded value. (U+FEFF is the invisible zero-width non-breaking space /ZWNBSP character.)