Terms for characters
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Terms for characters
The following terms describe characters:
- A single-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in one byte
- A double-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in two bytes
- A triple-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in three bytes
- An n-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in exactly n bytes
- A multi-byte character is one whose numeric value is not expressible in a single byte
Note: A double-byte code page can contain single-byte
characters and double-byte characters. A triple-byte code page can
contain single-byte characters, double-byte characters, and triple-byte
characters, and so on.