The SCHINESE936_6R0 character set provides support for simplified Chinese (Windows Code Page 936) on network-attached clients.
Under this character set, character data types support mixed single- and multibyte characters. The value of the first byte in a sequence distinguishes single-byte characters from double-byte characters.
IF the value of the first byte is … | THEN the length of the character is … |
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less than 0x81 | one byte |
greater than or equal to 0x81 | two bytes |