Merge pull request #5537 from Rageking8/standardize-paragraph-about-ascii-sbcs-and-mbcs

Standardize paragraph about ASCII, SBCS, and MBCS

Author: v-dirichards

docs/c-runtime-library/single-byte-and-multibyte-character-sets.md

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 title: "Single-Byte and Multibyte Character Sets"
 description: "An introduction to single and multi-byte character sets in the Microsoft runtime library."
+ms.date: 11/04/2016
 ms.topic: "concept-article"
-ms.date: "11/04/2016"
 helpviewer_keywords: ["SBCS (single byte character set)", "MBCS [C++], about MBCS", "character sets [C++], multibyte", "character sets [C++], single byte"]
-ms.assetid: 2cbc78ea-33c0-4cfb-b0df-7ce2458431ce
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 # Single-byte and multibyte character sets
 
-The ASCII character set defines characters in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. There are many other character sets, primarily European, that define the characters within the range 0x00 - 0x7F identically to the ASCII character set and also define an extended character set from 0x80 - 0xFF. An 8-bit, single-byte-character set (SBCS) is sufficient to represent the ASCII character set and the character sets for many European languages. However, some non-European character sets, such as Japanese Kanji, include many more characters than can be represented in a single-byte coding scheme, and so require multibyte-character set (MBCS) encoding.
+The ASCII character set defines characters in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. There are other character sets, primarily European, that define the characters within the range 0x00 - 0x7F identically to the ASCII character set and also define an extended character set from 0x80 - 0xFF. Thus, an 8-bit, single-byte-character set (SBCS) is sufficient to represent the ASCII character set and the character sets for many European languages. However, some non-European character sets, such as Japanese Kanji, include many more characters than a single-byte coding scheme can represent, and therefore require multibyte-character set (MBCS) encoding.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Many Microsoft run-time library SBCS routines handle multibyte bytes, characters, and strings as appropriate. Many multibyte-character sets define the ASCII character set as a subset. In many multibyte character sets, each character in the range 0x00 - 0x7F is identical to the character that has the same value in the ASCII character set. For example, in both ASCII and MBCS character strings, the one-byte null character ('\0') has value 0x00 and indicates the terminating null character.

docs/text/text-and-strings-in-visual-cpp.md

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-description: "Learn more about: Text and Strings in Visual C++"
 title: "Text and Strings in Visual C++"
-ms.date: "11/04/2016"
+description: "Learn more about: Text and Strings in Visual C++"
+ms.date: 11/04/2016
 helpviewer_keywords: ["globalization [C++], character sets", "programming [C++], international", "multiple language support [C++]", "Unicode [C++]", "international applications [C++], about international applications", "portability [C++]", "translation [C++], character sets", "non-European characters [C++]", "character sets [C++]", "globalization [C++]", "Japanese characters [C++]", "Kanji character support [C++]", "local character sets [C++]", "ASCII characters [C++]", "character sets [C++], about character sets", "localization [C++], character sets", "translating code [C++]", "localization [C++]", "character sets [C++], non-European", "portability [C++], character sets", "MBCS [C++], international programming"]
-ms.assetid: a1bb27ac-abe5-4c6b-867d-f761d4b93205
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 # Text and Strings in Visual C++
 
-An important aspect of developing applications for international markets is the adequate representation of local character sets. The ASCII character set defines characters in the range 0x00 to 0x7F. There are other character sets, primarily European, that define the characters within the range 0x00 to 0x7F identically to the ASCII character set and also define an extended character set from 0x80 to 0xFF. Thus, an 8-bit, single-byte-character set (SBCS) is sufficient to represent the ASCII character set, as well as the character sets for many European languages. However, some non-European character sets, such as Japanese Kanji, include many more characters than a single-byte coding scheme can represent, and therefore require multibyte-character set (MBCS) encoding.
+An important aspect of developing applications for international markets is the adequate representation of local character sets. The ASCII character set defines characters in the range 0x00 - 0x7F. There are other character sets, primarily European, that define the characters within the range 0x00 - 0x7F identically to the ASCII character set and also define an extended character set from 0x80 - 0xFF. Thus, an 8-bit, single-byte-character set (SBCS) is sufficient to represent the ASCII character set and the character sets for many European languages. However, some non-European character sets, such as Japanese Kanji, include many more characters than a single-byte coding scheme can represent, and therefore require multibyte-character set (MBCS) encoding.
 
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