UTF-32 is a coding of the characters defined by Unicode where each character is coded on a word of 32 bits.

Coding was defined in appendix 19 to the Unicode standard. Since, the appendix became obsolete, because UTF-32 forms integral part of the Unicode standard, in its chapter 3 Conformance where it is defined in a very strict way.

See too

Internal bonds

• Unicode, ISO/CEI 10646
• UTF-8, UTF-16
• ISO 646, ASCII, ISO 8859, ISO 8859-1
• special Characters.

External bonds

• '' Conformance '', The Unicode Standard 4.0 , chapter 3.2 pp. 60-61 and chapter 3.4 pp. 64-65 and chapter 3.9 pp. 73-81, August 2003, ISBN 0-321-18578-1.