UTF-16

UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding standard used to represent the Unicode character set and it's capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. It uses 16-bit code units to represent each character, allowing for a large range of characters to be represented, including those used in most of the world's written languages. Unlike earlier Unicode encodings, UTF-16 allows for characters to be represented with a single code unit or with a combination of two code units, making it more efficient than UTF-32 for representing many common scripts. It is widely used for text data processing and is supported by many operating systems, programming languages, and web browsers.