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<reference anchor='RFC2781'>

<front>
<title>UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646</title>
<author initials='P.' surname='Hoffman' fullname='Paul Hoffman'>
<organization>Internet Mail Consortium</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>127 Segre Place</street>
<city>Santa Cruz</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95060</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>phoffman@imc.org</email></address></author>
<author initials='F.' surname='Yergeau' fullname='Francois Yergeau'>
<organization>Alis Technologies</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>100, boul. Alexis-Nihon</street>
<street>Suite 600</street>
<city>Montreal</city>
<region>Quebec</region>
<code>H4M 2P2</code>
<country>CA</country></postal>
<email>fyergeau@alis.com</email></address></author>
<date month='February' year='2000' />
<abstract>
<t>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.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2781' />
</reference>
