Extracted from Pike v8.0 release 28 as of 2015-09-20.
   

Method string_to_unicode()


Method string_to_unicode

string(8bit) 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

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