| Subject | English | Japanese |
| comp. | n multibyte character | マルチバイト文字 |
| comp. | n multibyte character | 多バイト文字 |
| comp., MS | multibyte character set | マルチバイト文字セット (A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters) |
| comp. | multibyte encoding | マルチバイト文字 |