called '. Due to some platforms defining as 16 bits and others defining it as 32 bits, current versions provide unambiguous and . Even then the objects being stored might not be characters, for instance the variable-length UTF-16 is often stored in arrays of .

Other languages also have a type. Many, including C++, use 8-bit bytes like C. Others, such as Java, use 2-byte, wide storage to more directly accommodate