multibytecharset
nounUK /ˌmʌltiˈbaɪtˌtʃɑːsɛt/
US /ˌmʌltiˈbaɪtˌtʃɑrsɛt/
A multibytecharset is a way for computers to store letters and symbols using more than one byte for each character.
The website uses a multibytecharset so it can show Chinese, Arabic, and English text correctly.
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2. A character encoding where some characters take two or more bytes instead of one.
Older Japanese systems relied on a multibytecharset to handle kanji.
3. A setting in software that tells the program to expect characters of varying byte lengths.
The developer changed the multibytecharset setting to fix the garbled text.
4. A collection of symbols stored with variable-length byte codes for international text.
Switching to a multibytecharset solved the problem of missing accented letters.