Well, DBCS means "double byte character set" and thus it is always two bytes. But its a theoretical definition since there are no actual DBCS code pages -- all of the ones that exist are MBCS (multibyte character set) since they support both one-byte and two-byte characters.
There are standards like the Chinese GB18030 which supports characters of 1, 2, or 4 bytes -- definitely MBCS again. But these code pages are generally owned by outside governments/agencies, so there is no rule that they need to update when Unicode does. With the exception of gb18030, they are really *all* subsets of Unicode. MichKa ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: DBCS and Unicode 3.1 > Hello all, > > In the past, DBCS could support characters no larger than 2 bytes. Correct? > > Now that Unicode 3.1 has broken the two-byte barrier, is there a corresponding update for DBCS? > > I've been getting most of my DBCS info from these url's: > http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/conversion-data.html > http://www-919.ibm.com/developer/dbcs/guide3.html#DBCS > > Thanks, > > Erik Ostermueller > >
