Variable-width encoding
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Variable-width encoding
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A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set for representation, usually in a computer. Most common variable-width encodings are multibyte encodings, which use varying numbers of bytes (octets) to encode different characters.
(Some authors, notably in Microsoft documentation, use the term multibyte character set, which is a misnomer, because representation size is an attribute of the encoding, not of the c
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Type of character encoding scheme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-width_encoding
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2024-01-28T18:09:40Z
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