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| | Info: (recode) UCS-2 |
 | | Universal Character Set, 2 bytes ================================ One surface of `UCS' is usable for the subset defined by its first sixty thousand characters (in fact, 31 * 2^11 codes), and uses exactly two bytes per character. |
 | | The library also properly reacts to other occurrences of `0xFEFF' or `0xFFFE' elsewhere than at the beginning, because concatenation of `UCS-2' files should stay a simple matter, but it might trigger a diagnostic about non canonical input. |
 | | The value `0xFFFE' is not an `UCS' character, so if this value is seen at the beginning of a file, `recode' reacts by swapping all pairs of bytes. |
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