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Internationalization Guide


Using Multi-byte Code Pages

Single-byte code pages can accommodate a maximum of 256 characters. This presents a problem for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, whose ideographic and syllabic writing systems each contain tens of thousands of characters. This also presents a problem for Unicode, a standard that defines a code page to accommodate all characters of all languages of the world—including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

This chapter discusses a solution—multi-byte code pages—focusing on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean and touching on Unicode. For more information on Unicode, see Using Unicode."

This chapter contains the following sections:


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