From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 13:43:51 EDT
Doug,
In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not fixed
width.
tex
Doug Ewell wrote:
> Paradoxically (at least to me), the term "multi-byte character set"
> refers to a fixed-width encoding, such as UCS-2. The official name of
> ISO/IEC 10646 is "Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set."
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