English: 2-byte character > caractère binaire ?French translation: caractère à 2 octets 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | English term or phrase: | 2-byte character > caractère binaire ? | | French translation: | caractère à 2 octets | | Entered by: | Céline NORMIER |
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Tech/Engineering - Computers (general) | | English term or phrase: 2-byte character > caractère binaire ? | | 2-byte character is not usable for Machine Code. |
| | | caractère à 2 octets | Explanation:
Un "bit" est une unité binaire (un chiffre)
Un "byte" est un "mot" Ã 8 bits. |
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Pierre Renault
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| caractères à double octet
Explanation:
Certain languages like Japanese have a vast number of different characters that exceed what it's possible to hold in a single-byte character set because of the limit of 256 combinations for 8 bit. In a 2-byte character set, the number of combinations is 256x256.
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