- SBCS
SBCS, or Single Byte Character Set, is sometimes used to refer to
character set s which use onebyte for eachgraphic character .The term SBCS is commonly used as a contrast against the terms
DBCS (double-byte character set) andMBCS (multi-byte character set).Examples of SBCS encodings include
ISO/IEC 646 , the variousISO 8859 encodings, and the variousMicrosoft /IBM code page s. Note that the number of bytes used for representing control functions is "irrelevant" to whether a particular encoding is considered an SBCS or not; in fact, encodings based on ISO 646 frequently employ variable-length multi-byte control sequences, most notablyescape sequences .In
CJK computing, SBCS’s are traditionally associated with half-width characters, so called because characters in an SBCS paired with a DBCS would traditionally occupy half the width of a DBCS character on a fixed-widthcomputer terminal or text screen.ee also
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DBCS
*MBCS
*Variable-width encoding
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