RFC 2781: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646

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…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Informative reference — RFC 2130: The Report of the IAB Character Set Workshop held 29 February - 1 March, 1996

Incoming relationships (23 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 3730: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7303: XML Media Types
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5878: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Extensions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9649: WebP Image Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4918: HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5730: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6365: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5731: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3536: Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4930: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3076: Canonical XML Version 1.0
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5733: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3731: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5732: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3075: XML-Signature Syntax and Processing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3915: Domain Registry Grace Period Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3732: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3733: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Mapping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9277: On Stable Storage for Items in Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4263: Media Subtype Registration for Media Type text/troff
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4310: Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode