Re: [OT?] QBCS

From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 13:43:51 EDT

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    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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