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  1. multibyte character set:


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multibyte character set:

multibyte character set [the ~] nomen

  1. the multibyte character set (MBCS)
    – A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters. 1

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MBCS MBCS; multibyte character set
jeu de caractères multioctets MBCS; multibyte character set

Related Definitions for "multibyte character set":

  1. A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters.1

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