UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646
RFC 2781, “UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646”, is an Informational document published in February 2000 by P. Hoffman, F. Yergeau. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes the UTF-16 encoding of Unicode/ISO-10646, addresses the issues of serializing UTF-16 as an octet stream for transmission over the Internet, discusses MIME charset naming as described in [CHARSET-REG], and contains the registration for three MIME charset parameter values: UTF-16BE (big-endian), UTF-16LE (little- endian), and UTF-16. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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