Terms for bytes
The following terms describe bytes:
A
lead byte is the first byte of a multi-byte character
A
trail byte is any byte of a multi-byte character except the first
The following figure shows four characters from a double-byte code page.
Figure 14. Four characters from a double-byte code page
The following figure shows three characters from a UTF-8 code page. Note that Character 4 is a Unicode supplementary character.
Figure 15. Three characters from a UTF-8 code page
