Question

Difference between unicode and multibyte character set

Answer 1

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the worlds writing system.unicode provide a unique number for every character.Here is no matter what the platform,program or language.

A multibyte character set assigns a number to character.A multibyte character set is a character composed of sequences of one or more bytes. Each byte sequence represents a single character in the extended character set. Multibyte characters are used in character sets such as Kanji.