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What are all the languages use double byte characters?

Can anyone point me to the list of languages that use double byte characters?

Thanks,

Solution

  • DBCS is a property of a code page. A code page needs double-byte characters when it needs to encode more than 128 non-ASCII glyphs. On Windows that's

    • 932, Japanese
    • 936, Simplified Chinese
    • 949, Korean
    • 950, Traditional Chinese

    There are probably more, IBM and Oracle defined their own. This is all a bad memory, Unicode rules.