ILE C/C++ Language Reference

Multibyte Characters

A multibyte character is a character whose bit representation fits into one or more bytes and is a member of the extended character set. The extended character set is a superset of the basic character set. The term wide character is a character whose bit representation accommodates an object of type wchar_t, capable of representing any character in the current locale.

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