Method string_to_unicode()
- Method string_to_unicode
string(8bit) string_to_unicode(string s, int(0..2)|void byteorder)
- Description
Converts a string into an UTF16 compliant byte-stream.
- Parameter s
String to convert to UTF16.
- Parameter byteorder
Byte-order for the output. One of:
0 Network (aka big-endian) byte-order (default).
1 Little-endian byte-order.
2 Native byte-order.
- Note
Throws an error if characters not legal in an UTF16 stream are encountered. Valid characters are in the range 0x00000 - 0x10ffff, except for characters 0xfffe and 0xffff.
Characters in range 0x010000 - 0x10ffff are encoded using surrogates.
- See also
Charset.decoder(), string_to_utf8(), unicode_to_string(), utf8_to_string()