UTF16 Encode Decode

UTF-16 Converter

UTF-16 converter helps you convert between Unicode character numbers, characters, UTF-8 code units in hex, percent escapes,and numeric character references.

How to convert to UTF16

1. Enter your text in the editor at the top.
2. You will automatically get UTF16 bytes at the bottom.
3. You can also import text files for conversion

UTF-16

UTF-16 is a Unicode encoding that consists of one or two 16-bit components for each character. As single Unicode 16-bit units, UTF-16 offers access to around 60,000 characters. Surrogate pairs, a mechanism, allows it to access an additional 1 000 000 characters.

These pairings' high (first) and low (second) values are separated into two Unicode code ranges. 0xD800 to 0xDBFF are the highs, and 0xDC00 to 0xDFFF are the lows.
Characters needing surrogate pairs are uncommon because the most common characters have already been encoded in the first 64,000 values.
UTF-16 is extremely well designed as the best compromise between handling and space, and all commonly used characters can be stored with one code unit per code point. UTF16 is the default encoding for Unicode.
 

What are Unicode encodings UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32?

We now know that Unicode is an international standard that encodes every known character to a unique number. But, how do we move these unique numbers around the internet? Transmission is achieved using bytes of information.

UTF-8: Every code point is encoded using one, two, three, or four bytes in UTF-8. It is ASCII backward compatible. All English characters use only one byte, which is exceptionally efficient. If we're sending non-English characters, we'll merely need more bytes.  It is the most used type of encoding, and Python 3 uses it by default. The default encoding in Python 2 is ASCII (unfortunately).
UTF-16 UTF-16 has a variable length of 2 or 4 bytes. Because most Asian text can be encoded in two bytes each, this encoding is ideal for it. It isn't very good for English since every English character requires two bytes..
UTF-32 is fixed 4 bytes. All characters are encoded in 4 bytes, so it needs a lot of memory. It is not used very often. 

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