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DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) is used in the applications that support large character sets.

  1. True

  2. False
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Explanation

DBCS uses two bytes to represent each character, enabling support for large character sets like Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. This is necessary because single-byte encoding can only represent 256 characters, which is insufficient for languages with thousands of characters.

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