A wide character is a computer character datatype that generally has a size greater than the traditional 8-bit character. The increased datatype size allows for the use of larger coded character sets.
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Famous quotes containing the words wide and/or character:
““How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense.””
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
—Alla Nazimova (1879–1945)