UTF-9

File Format
Name	UTF-9
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Character encoding UTF-9
Released	2005

UTF-9 is a Unicode character encoding introduced by the standards document RFC 4042 in 2005. UTF-9 and its sibling UTF-18 allow for efficient coding of Unicode characters on machines based on 36-bit words, using 9 and 18 bits per code point, respectively. Although they are completely valid in a technical sense, they are largely humorous, as virtually all computers designed after the early-mid 1980s use word sizes of powers of two, making these encodings largely obsolete.

Software

• [1]: A converter written in Python (Pip package utf9)

Links

• RFC 4042
• Wikipedia:April Fools' Day Request for Comments#2005: Very short Wikipedia entry on RFC 4042