variable-width character encoding

Type of character encoding scheme

EntityQ386787

Also known as multi-byte character set · MBCS

Subclass of: character encoding
, character set
, variable-length code

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In coding theory, variable-length encoding is a symbol encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode symbols for representation through a communication channel or in a storage medium. The equivalent concept in computer science is bit string.

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Different from: variable-length code
Members / parts: DBCS
Opposite of: SBCS

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