c++ - "Multi-byte Character Set"当前的现代术语是什么

Question

我曾经很困惑:

Confusion on Unicode and Multibyte Articles

阅读完所有贡献者的评论后，加上:

查看旧文章(2001 年):http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml ，其中谈论 unicode :

being a 16-bit character definition allowing a theoretical total of over 65,000 characters. However, the complete character sets of the world add up to over 170,000 characters.

并查看当前的“现代”文章:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8 (which uses 1 byte for all ASCII characters, which have the same code values as in the standard ASCII encoding, and up to 4 bytes for other characters), the now-obsolete UCS-2 (which uses 2 bytes for all characters, but does not include every character in the Unicode standard), and UTF-16 (which extends UCS-2, using 4 bytes to encode characters missing from UCS-2).

好像在VC2008的编译选项中，Character Sets下的选项“Unicode”真正的意思是“Unicode encoded in UCS-2”(还是UTF-16？我不确定)

我尝试通过在VC2008下运行以下代码来验证这一点

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    // Use unicode encoded in UCS-2?
    std::cout << sizeof(L"我爱你") << std::endl;
    // Use unicode encoded in UCS-2?
    std::cout << sizeof(L"abc") << std::endl;
    getchar();

    // Compiled using options Character Set : Use Unicode Character Set.
    // print out 8, 8

    // Compiled using options Character Set : Multi-byte Character Set.
    // print out 8, 8
}

似乎在使用 Unicode 字符集选项进行编译时，结果符合我的假设。

但是多字节字符集呢？多字节字符集在当前“现代”世界中意味着什么？ :)

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-byte_character_set

MBCS 是一个术语，用于表示一类字符编码，其字符不能用单个字节表示，因此是多字节字符集。为了正确解码这种格式的字符串，您需要一个代码页来告诉您映射到字符的各种字节组合。 ISO/IEC 8859定义了一组 MBCS 标准，但根据维基百科，ISO 在 2004 年停止维护它们，大概是为了专注于 Unicode。

所以我猜 MBCS 的现代术语是“不赞成使用 Unicode”。