Multibyte character set

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Multibyte Character Set ( MBCS ) describes character encodings in which different numbers of bytes are used depending on the character to be stored .

The main representatives of MBCS are: UTF-8 , UTF-16 , UTF-7 , Shift-JIS , Big5 and GB2312 .

See also

Character sets that encode each character with only one byte are also called Single Byte Character Set (SBCS).
MBCS, which encode a character with exactly two bytes, are also called Double Byte Character Set (DBCS).