Tex Texin <tex at i18nguy dot com> wrote:
> In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not > fixed width.
Well, if variable-width encodings are referred to as both DBCS (see, for example, http://czyborra.com/charsets/cjk.html#dbcs) and MBCS, then what term is used to describe a fixed-width encoding of more than 1 byte? Or was the concept not common enough to warrant a name until Unicode?
The most common 'pure' DBCS was encountered in mainframe environments. All the other platforms used 'mixed' single and double-byte or other variable length encodings, so that 'DBCS' could stand in for a variable lenght encoding with maximum length 2 without confusion (except when talking to mainframe people).
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