Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

2-byte character

French translation:

caractère à 2 octets

Added to glossary by Tony M
May 2, 2005 22:33
19 yrs ago
English term

2-byte character

English to French Tech/Engineering Computers (general)
2-byte character is not usable for Machine Code.
Proposed translations (French)
5 +1 caractère à 2 octets
5 caractères à double octet
Change log

May 5, 2010 10:08: Tony M changed "Term asked" from "2-byte character > caractère binaire ?" to "2-byte character"

May 5, 2010 10:08: Tony M changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/100349">Céline NORMIER's</a> old entry - "2-byte character > caractère binaire ?"" to ""caractère à 2 octets""

Proposed translations

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English term (edited): 2-byte character > caractère binaire ?
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caractère à 2 octets

Un "bit" est une unité binaire (un chiffre)

Un "byte" est un "mot" à 8 bits.
Peer comment(s):

agree Proelec : OK. la remarque de F.S. est très instructive. Merci.
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English term (edited): 2-byte character > caractère binaire ?

caractères à double octet

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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