Doug,

In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not fixed
width.

tex

Doug Ewell wrote:

> Paradoxically (at least to me), the term "multi-byte character set"
> refers to a fixed-width encoding, such as UCS-2.  The official name of
> ISO/IEC 10646 is "Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set."

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