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A '''variable-width encoding''' is a type of [[character encoding]] scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a [[character set]] (a repertoire of symbols) for representation in a [[computer]]. Most common variable-width encodings are '''multibyte encodings''', which use varying numbers of [[byte]]s ([[octet (computing)|octet]]s) to encode different characters.
(Some authors, notably in Microsoft documentation, use the term ''multibyte character set,'' which is a [[misnomer]] since representation size is an attribute of the encoding, not of the character set.)
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