string_to_unicode()

Method string_to_unicode

string string_to_unicode(string s)

Description

Converts a string into an UTF16 compliant byte-stream.

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

Locale.Charset.decoder() , string_to_utf8() , unicode_to_string() , utf8_to_string()