UCS-2 (obselete)
- Encode each codepoint as two consecutive bytes
- UCS-2BE – Most significant byte first
- UCS-2LE – Least significant byte first
- U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
- Byte Order Mark — BOM
- UCS-2 can only encode the first 65,536 codepoints
- BMP – Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0 of 17)