What is a multibyte character set?

Question

Does the term multibyte refer to a charset whose characters can - but don\'t have to be - wider than 1 byte, (e.g. UTF-8) or does it refer to character sets which are in any

Answer 1

All character sets where you dont have a 1 byte = 1 character mapping. All Unicode variants, but also asian character sets are multibyte.

For more information, I suggest reading this Wikipedia article.