> There is no magic here, it's just a 2-bytes in length which remains > unchanged regardless of the codepages used. The thing which changes is > just its mere appearance: it'll appear as 2 (strange looking) > characters in (single-byte) codepages while it'll appear as 1 > character in (double-byte character supporting) codepages.
BTW, alphanumerics are still single-byte characters even in CJK. So, the name multibyte: MultiByte = SingleByte + DoubleByte > 한글 Hmm, I neglected the web encoding... I think the above are just (unicode) code-points, so, I don't know how they appear in other codepages, as two or four characters. Probably as 2 unknown characters. To be precise, if I save the above as text file in Korean codepage (949), then it'll appear as 2 Korean characters consisting of 4 bytes. The hex value of the bytes are: B1 DB C7 D1 If I open the above text file after switching the codepage from 949 to 1252, then it'll appear as 4 (strange-looking single-byte) characters, corresponding to the same hex values B1 DB C7 D1. Sean
