About Character Sets
Character sets are usually referred to as single-byte or multibyte character sets, referring to the number of bytes needed to define a relationship with a character that is used in a language. English, German, and French (among many others) are single-byte languages; only 1 byte is necessary to represent a character such as the letter a or the number 9. Single-byte code sets have, at most, 256 characters, including the entire set of ASCII characters, accented characters, and other characters necessary for formatting.
Multibyte code sets have more than 256 characters, including all single-byte characters as a subset. Multibyte languages include traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, and ...
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