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A multibyte character set defines the encoding for characters on a variable number of bytes. The size of a character can be one (usually ASCII chars), two, three or more bytes, depending on the character set.
Example of multibyte character sets are BIG5, EUC-JP, and UTF-8. BIG5 and EUC-JP characters can be one or two bytes long, while UTF-8 characters can be 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes long (usually a maximum of 3 is sufficient).
Genero Business Development Language supports multibyte character sets.