Generally, wide characters take more space in memory than multibyte characters but are faster to process.

一般来说，宽字元需要的记忆体空间要比多位元组字元多，但处理较快。

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Because each wide character is always represented in a fixed size of 16 bits, using wide characters simplifies programming with international character sets.

因为每一个宽字元永远以16位元的固定大小来表示，所以使用宽字元简化了含国际化字元集的程序设计。

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For instance, a part number may be 10 characters wide.

例如，一个零件号可以是10个字符宽。

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