double-byte character

Typeglossary
DictionaryLCS
LibraryLiveCode Script
Synonymsdouble-byte character,double-byte,two-byte character,2-byte character
RelatedGlossary: character, bit, Unicode, byte
Description

A character from a character set that supports more than 256 characters; a Unicode character.

The numeric equivalent of Unicode characters is between zero and 65,535, for 65,536 total characters. 65,536 is 2^16, so it takes 16 bits (two bytes) to store a Unicode character.

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