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多バイト文字 (tabaitomoji) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

多たバイト文も字じ

た

バ

イ

ト

も

じ

Meanings

1

multibyte character

Computing term for a character encoded using two or more bytes, such as in UTF-8 or Shift_JIS.

多たバイト文も字じを含ふくむテキストを処しょ理りするとき

は

、

エンコーディング

に

注ちゅう

意い

が

必ひつ

要よう

です

。

When processing text that contains multibyte characters, you need to be careful about the encoding.

Kanji

多many, frequent, much
文sentence, literature, style
字character, letter, word

Related words

マルチバイト文も字じ
Synonymous; マルチバイト文字 is the more common term in modern Japanese computing contexts.
シングルバイト文も字じ
Opposite: a single-byte character, typically ASCII.

Built from

多たバイト+文も字じ

Etymology

Compound of 多 (many) + バイト (byte) + 文字 (character), a direct calque of English 'multibyte character'.