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ramu_mohan21 · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:40 am Post subject: What is Double Byte Character Set

Hi Board,
While going thourgh the IBM-REXX Manual I have gone through the topic "Double Byte Character Set". But I didn't get a clear picture of it.

Anyone can explain me in breif? Question

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Rammohan Pabba
Software Engineer
Bangalore.

kolusu · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

Rammohan,

DBCS stands for Double-Byte Character Set, A character set that uses two-byte (16-bit) characters rather than one-byte (8-bit) characters. Some languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, have writing schemes with many different characters that cannot be represented with single-byte codes such as ASCII and EBCDIC. In a single-byte character set, the possible number of binary combinations is 256; the number increases to 65,536 in a double byte character set. DBCS characters must be used with hardware and software that support the double-byte format. Because each character requires 2 bytes, entering,displaying, and printing DBCS characters requires hardware and supporting software that are DBCS capable.

Hope this helps...

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ramu_mohan21 · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:

Hi Koulsu,
Thanks for clarifying my doubt.

Best Regards,
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Rammohan Pabba
Software Engineer
Bangalore