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Character-Representation Conventions

Throughout this manual, examples show how single-byte and multibyte characters are displayed. Multibyte characters are usually ideographic (such as Japanese or Chinese characters), but this manual does not depict the actual multibyte characters. Instead, it uses ASCII characters to represent both single-byte and multibyte characters. This section describes how this manual represents multibyte and single-byte characters abstractly

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