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'''Double-Byte Character Set''' (''DBCS'') uses 2 bytes for each character. DBCS are commonly used by national languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which have more symbols than can be represented by a single byte.

See also:
* Multi-Byte Character Set ([[MBCS]])
* Single-Byte Character Set ([[SBCS]])

[[Category:Character encodings]]