Talk:DBCS

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Since Unicode supports all the major languages in East Asia, unlike many other codepages, it is generally easier to enable and maintain software that uses Unicode.
Does this mean there are some other codepages that do? —Frungi 03:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] DBCS/MBCS in Windows

In Microsoft Windows, MBCS denotes encodings that use a mixture of 1 and 2 bytes per character. In C and C++ using Microsoft's "generic-text mapping" this is enabled via the macro _MBCS. The documentation states that MBCS is DBCS, so in Windows DBCS also refers to 1/2 byte encodings.

Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_90c3.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_using_generic.2d.text_mappings.asp

Perhaps get this into the main text?

Cheers,

- Alf

[edit] Always in East Asia?

Why are almost all double-byte character sets from East Asia? --84.61.7.180 16:11, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DBCS on System i not terribly controversial

I work for a software company that builds software for the IBM System i (formerly AS/400 and iSeries). DBCS is certainly a complex topic but not one which I would described as particularly controversial for users of this platform. Poorly understood and hard to comprehend, perhaps. Also, using the term DBCS-enabled with other IBM System i users would not be ambiguous. Most applications that run on the IBM System i today use DBCS rather than Unicode as it rather late comer to this platform and has at least one major restriction on the System i platform that prevents it's rapid adoption. That should be clarified. If DBCS is controversial and non-deterministic on other platforms I would suggest separate section to talk about DBCS on per platform basis. I'm new here so I did not want to go nuts editing this article without feedback or guidance.

Marty Acks 00:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)