Microsoft KB Archive/305118

= Windows Services for UNIX Does Not Support Double-Byte Character Set =

Article ID: 305118

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 2.1
 * Microsoft Windows Services for Unix 2.2

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This article was previously published under Q305118



SUMMARY
Double-byte character sets (DBCS) are foreign language character sets that require more than one byte (8 bits) of information to express each character. Each character of a DBCS is encoded in exactly two bytes or 16 bits.

Windows Services for UNIX does not support DBCS encoding in group or host names.



MORE INFORMATION
Each character of a single-byte character set (SBCS) is encoded in exactly one byte or 8 bits. Sample SBCS character sets are Western, Greek, and Cyrillic.

Double-byte character sets are needed for languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

Windows Services for UNIX 2.2 OEM only version of Services for UNIX is available only through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Windows Services for UNIX version 2.2 is designed to be installed only on Windows Powered computers.

Keywords: kbinfo KB305118

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