UCS

UCS is the abbrivation of Universal Character Set.
It is a fixed length encoding method. As it is a fixed encoding it will always use the number of bytes assigned, even when not needed.

UCS-2

It encodes a character using 2 bytes (16 bits), however it was replaced by UTF-16.

UCS-4

Is actually a 31 bit encoding form that represents every character by 4 byts (32 bits) and is a fixed-length encoding. UTF-32 is a subset of UCS-4


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