1 ! Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Ehrenberg
2 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
3 USING: help.markup help.syntax io.encodings strings ;
6 ARTICLE: "io.encodings.utf16" "UTF-16 encoding"
7 "The UTF-16 encoding is a variable-width encoding. Unicode code points are encoded as 2 or 4 byte sequences. There are three encoding descriptor classes for working with UTF-16, depending on endianness or the presence of a BOM:"
15 ABOUT: "io.encodings.utf16"
18 { $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16LE, that is, UTF-16 in little endian, without a byte order mark. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." }
19 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
22 { $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16BE, that is, UTF-16 in big endian, without a byte order mark. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." }
23 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
26 { $class-description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16, that is, UTF-16 with a byte order mark. This is the most useful for general input and output in UTF-16. Streams can be made which read or write wth this encoding." }
27 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
30 { $values { "value" { $or utf16le utf16be } } }
31 { $description "The encoding descriptor for UTF-16 without a byte order mark in native endian order. This is useful mostly for FFI calls which take input of strings of the type " { $snippet "wchar_t*" } "." }
32 { $see-also "encodings-introduction" } ;
34 { utf16 utf16le utf16be utf16n } related-words