Kbase P20707: What does the term Double Byte Characters (DBE) mean?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
2/4/2005 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What does the term Double Byte Characters (DBE) mean?
FIX:
Progress supports multi-byte characters. This means that you can develop applications for countries whose languages require multi-byte character sets.
Double-byte characters comprise a subset of multi-byte characters. Languages that use double-byte characters include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.
What a double-byte character is, is a character that requires two bytes to be able to create a single visual character. These are often characters that have attributes, like a symbol above/below
ext to the character to give the character more meaning.