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I came across the term 'double byte' font when I was reading a technical documentation for a product. Googling the answer did not help either.

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From the docs:

double-byte font

a font that uses two bytes (16 bits) to represent each character, thereby allowing more than the 256 characters that could fit into a single-byte font. Contrast ASCII , ANSI , and EBCDIC , which are single-byte character sets.

single-byte font

a font that represents each character with a single byte, as in ASCII , ANSI , or EBCDIC , and is therefore limited to 256 or fewer characters. Contrast double-byte font ; Unicode .

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