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Internationalization Guide
Terms For Code Pages
The following terms describe code pages:
- A single-byte code page is one in which each character (or other symbol) has a numeric value expressible in a single byte.
- A double-byte code page is one in which each character (or other symbol) has a numeric value expressible in a maximum of two bytes.
- A triple-byte code page is one in which each character (or symbol) has a numeric value expressible in a maximum of three bytes.
- An n-byte code page is one in which each character (or symbol) has a numeric value expressible in a maximum of n bytes.
- A multi-byte code page is a code page that is not single byte.
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