The shortest possible multi-byte sequence that can represent the code is used.
这是能够代表被使用代码的最短的可能的多字节序列。
First, it can encode a single byte character from any byte-oriented code set, and second, when used in an array, it can encode any multi-byte character from a multi-byte character set such as Unicode.
首先，它可以从面向字节的代码集编码单字节字符，其次，当在数组中使用时，它可以从多字节字符集(如unicode)，编码任何多字节字符。
It may also be necessary to build the libiconv library to support a specific code page or apply a patch when complex multi-byte characters are used, such as those in Japanese.
使用复杂的多字节字符时，比如日语中的那些字符，可能需要构建libiconv库来支持特定代码页，或者是需要应用补丁。
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