Aug 13, 2010 · Unicode and UCS-2 were originally designed to use a 16-bit fixed-width encoding, which would allow for 65,536 characters. Early adopters of Unicode, such as Sun (for Java) …

Sep 3, 2020 · The difference between UTF-16 and UCS-2 is that UCS-2 doesn't see that combination of encoded code points as being anything special, anything other than two …

A: UCS-2 is obsolete terminology which refers to a Unicode implementation up to Unicode 1.1, before surrogate code points and UTF-16 were added to Version 2.0 of the standard. This …

Jul 31, 2012 · For the most part, UTF-16 and UCS-2 are the same thing. There is no difference. What it means is that each character is two bytes wide. "LE" stands for little endian, i.e. each …

Sep 18, 2012 · UCS-2 is a strict subset of UTF-16 -- it can encode characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (i.e., from U+0000 til U+FFFF) only. If you need to express characters in the …

Feb 19, 2020 · UCS-2 can be considered a subset of UTF-16, and thus any UTF-16 capable decoder should also be able to handle UCS-2; the difference is that UCS-2 doesn't cover the …

Sep 30, 2015 · According to this, SQL Server 2K5 uses UCS-2 internally. It can store UTF-16 data in UCS-2 (with appropriate data types, nchar etc), however if there is a supplementary …

Mar 5, 2014 · I'm currently working on and hitting an issue with converting a UTF-8 string to a UCS-2 string with the icu library. There are several number of ways to do this in the library, but …

Dec 29, 2010 · I'm pulling some internationalized text from a MS SQL Server 2005 database. As per the defaults for that DB, the characters are stored as UCS-2. However, I need to output …

Mar 26, 2013 · I am working on a C# based application and came up with this problem of converting a string to UCS2 encoding. Basically, I have to take some text from XML and …