マルチバイト文も字じ

noun

multibyte character

A character encoded using two or more bytes, as opposed to a single-byte character. Common in discussions of East Asian character sets.

• 日本にほん語ごの漢かん字じはマルチバイト文も字じで表ひょう現げんされる。

  Japanese kanji are represented as multibyte characters.

noun

multibyte encoding; variable-width encoding

An encoding scheme where characters can occupy a variable number of bytes. Often contrasted with fixed-width encodings. Sense 3 (variable-width encoding) is a closely related concept and is merged here.

• UTF-8はマルチバイト文も字じの符ふ号ごう化か方ほう式しきの一ひとつです。

  UTF-8 is one type of multibyte character encoding.