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How to convert utf 8 text to utf-16?


Asked by Zayden Wall on Dec 14, 2021 FAQ



For instance, to read the content of a UTF-8 encoded text file and convert the text to UTF-16, just do something like: If we have some text that "probably" contains UTF-8 encoded text and we want to replace any invalid UTF-8 sequence with a replacement character, something like the following function may be used:
And,
Utf-8 and utf-16 both handle the same Unicode characters. They are both variable length encodings that require up to 32 bits per character. The difference is that Utf-8 encodes the common characters including English and numbers using 8-bits. Utf-16 uses at least 16-bits for every character.
Likewise, Save an Excel file as utf-8 encoding file Click File > Save As, and select a folder to place the file. See screenshot: In the Save As dialog, type a name for the file in the File names box, and click Tools > Web Options. See screenshot: In the Web Options dialog, under Encoding tab, choose Unicode (UTF-8) from Save this document as list. See screenshot: Click OK > Save. ...
Just so,
Utf-8 and utf-16 both handle the same Unicode characters. They are both variable length encodings that require up to 32 bits per character. The difference is that Utf-8 encodes the common characters including English and numbers using 8-bits. Utf-16 uses at least 16-bits for every character.
Consequently,
It's not that UTF-8 doesn't cover Chinese characters and UTF-16 does. UTF-16 uses uniformly 16 bits to represent a character; while UTF-8 uses 1, 2, 3, up to a max of 4 bytes, depending on the character, so that an ASCII character is represented still as 1 byte. Start with this Wikipedia article to get the idea behind it.