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Can anyone point me to the list of languages that use double byte characters?

Thanks,

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Most languages will support this in some way. I would recommend you have a read of this excellent article by Joel Spolsky (a co-founder of this site) on character encodings.

Jim Jeffries
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  • ohh sorry. You understand it wrong. I am not asking programming languages. I am asking for which human languages that windows use double byte characters? – svv Jul 14 '11 at 19:23
  • Most languages can use double byte characters, even English. Is really recommend reading this article to give you a clearer understanding. Sorry I can't be more specific – Jim Jeffries Jul 15 '11 at 06:31
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DBCS is a property of a code page. A code page needs double-byte characters when it needs to encode more than 128 non-ASCII glyphs. On Windows that's

  • 932, Japanese
  • 936, Simplified Chinese
  • 949, Korean
  • 950, Traditional Chinese

There are probably more, IBM and Oracle defined their own. This is all a bad memory, Unicode rules.

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