From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 23:26:54 EDT
Tex Texin <tex at i18nguy dot com> wrote:
> In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not
> fixed width.
Well, if variable-width encodings are referred to as both DBCS (see, for
example, http://czyborra.com/charsets/cjk.html#dbcs) and MBCS, then what
term is used to describe a fixed-width encoding of more than 1 byte? Or
was the concept not common enough to warrant a name until Unicode?
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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