Calculate Fletcher-16
Calculate Fletcher-16 from text. The algorithm keeps two modulo-255 sums and combines them into a 16-bit result.
Fletcher-16 is compact and older than many CRC profiles. It can still appear in legacy formats and embedded examples.
Input bytes
Text is encoded as UTF-8 before the checksum runs. Non-ASCII text may not match a tool that treats the same characters as Latin-1 or another encoding.