UCS-2
E593922
UCS-2 is a fixed-length 16-bit character encoding that represents Unicode code points in the Basic Multilingual Plane, preceding and largely superseded by UTF-16.
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode encoding
ⓘ
character encoding ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 16-bit ⓘ |
| byteOrderMarkUsage | may use BOM to indicate endianness ⓘ |
| category | fixed-width encoding ⓘ |
| codeUnitSize | 16 bits ⓘ |
| commonlyConfusedWith | UTF-16 ⓘ |
| comparedTo | UTF-8 as less space-efficient for ASCII ⓘ |
| covers | Basic Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | early Unicode repertoire ⓘ |
| differsFrom | UTF-16 by lack of surrogate pairs ⓘ |
| doesNotSupport |
Unicode supplementary planes
ⓘ
code points above U+FFFF ⓘ |
| doesNotUse | surrogate pairs ⓘ |
| encodes | Unicode code points ⓘ |
| encodingFormOf | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encodingUnit | 16-bit code unit ⓘ |
| hasLimitation | cannot represent all Unicode characters ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
UCS-2BE
ⓘ
UCS-2LE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBefore | Unicode supplementary planes were defined ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf | UTF-16 for BMP code points ⓘ |
| largelySupersededBy | UTF-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lengthType | fixed-length ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | UTF-16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | ISO/IEC 10646 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizedIn |
Unicode 1.0
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early Unicode versions ⓘ |
| status |
deprecated in favor of UTF-16
ⓘ
obsolete ⓘ |
| supportsCodePointRange | U+0000–U+FFFF ⓘ |
| typicalUse | legacy systems supporting only BMP ⓘ |
| usesByteOrder | big-endian or little-endian ⓘ |
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