Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

Terms for characters

The following terms describe characters:

A single-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in one byte.
A double-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in two bytes.
A triple-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in three bytes.
An n-byte character is one whose numeric value is expressible in exactly n bytes.
A multi-byte character is one whose numeric value is not expressible in a single byte.
Note: A double-byte code page can contain single-byte characters and double-byte characters. A triple-byte code page can contain single-byte characters, double-byte characters, and triple-byte characters. And so on.