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DBCS
Character encoding in which characters are encoded in one or two bytes
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Also known as double-byte character set
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Character encoding in which characters are encoded in one or two bytes
Also known as double-byte character set
1 identifiers linking DBCS across the web's reference databases
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A double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters are encoded in two bytes, or merely every graphic character not representable by an accompanying single-byte character set (SBCS) is encoded in two bytes. A DBCS supports national languages that contain many unique characters or symbols. Examples of such languages include Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Korean Hangul does not contain as many characters, but KS X 1001 supports both Hangul and Hanja, and uses two bytes per character.