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Computing: Software Mid‑importance

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Multibyte?[edit]

To my understanding, 8-bit multibyte encodings like UTF-8 are multibyte (or "variable length"), while only fixed-length encodings like UTF-32 or UCS-2 are "wide". Am I mistaken? -- 77.176.91.80 (talk) 07:32, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]