uding the diacritical marks used in Czech,
French, German, Spanish, and other languages.</dd>

<dt><i>Multibyte character set</i></dt>
<dd>Eastern languages employ thousands of separate characters, which cannot be
encoded by using a single-byte coding scheme. With the proliferation of computer
commerce, double-byte coding schemes were developed so that characters could be
represented in 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit sequences. This requires
complicated passing algorithms; even so, using different code se