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<h1 class="topictitle1">Double-byte character size</h1>
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<div><p>When displayed or printed, double-byte characters typically are
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twice as wide as single-byte characters.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>Consider the width of double-byte characters when you calculate
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the length of a double-byte data field because field lengths are typically
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identified as the number of single-byte character positions used. For more
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information about calculating the length of fields containing double-byte
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data, refer to the <a href="../dds/kickoff.htm">DDS
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concepts</a>.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbal3dbcsf.htm" title="Some languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, have a writing scheme that uses many different characters that cannot be represented with single-byte codes. To create coded character sets for such languages, the server uses two bytes to represent each character. Characters that are encoded in two-byte code are called double-byte characters.">Double-byte character set fundamentals</a></div>
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