What is a wide figure?
A wide character is a computer character that has a size exceeding the standard 8 -bit measurement. Characters in a computer set, such as the Universal Character (USC) set, illustrate the main example of wide characters because the USC can be coded in 16 -bit or 32 -bit formats. This differs from older, standardized character sets, such as the American standard information exchange code (ASCII), which uses the character of a maximum of 7 bits. The advantage for encoding character sets in wide characters is that it allows more breathing rooms when it comes to add more and complex symbols to the set, which provides a wider range of freedom to the character designers. Disadvantages come in the form of further memory consumption, as wide character sets use multiple system memory when active on a computer. For Windows®-ABO 32 and 64-bit versions, CSady Haracter must be adapted to fit into a 16-bit frame, offering twice storage capacity for each character compared to the "standard" 8-bit set. UNIX®On the other hand, it requires a wide figure to fit a 32 -bit frame that offers four times the capacity of the base set.
The biggest advantage of wide character sets is that they allow unusual symbols and greater versatility in including different languages in their interfaces. For example, wide character sets may include a standard English alphabet, along with languages such as Cyrillic and Greek, at the same time. This means that the only set of wide characters can apply to individuals spanning multiple countries, unlike the requirement of a unique non-wide set of characters for each individual language area.
Although it is useful for standardizing software versions across different language regions, sets of wide characters come at the price. This price is additional memory overhead costs. While the 16 -bit character set offers double the capacity of the standard 8 -bit set, it also consumes it twicelik memory. The same applies to 32 -induced character sets that swallow significant four times as much memory than conventional character sets.
From computational and statistical perspectives, this is a significant "memory cost". In the practical application, however, the costs are not as large as they might seem. Modern computers often contain four or more gigabytes of system memory, so storing even large 32 -bit characters in practice quite negligible. Only the most redesigned - or underestimated - computers will notice the substantial performance from the use of sets of wide characters.