SBCS

A single-byte character set (SBCS) is a character encoding that uses exactly one byte for each graphic character. A SBCS can accommodate a maximum of 256 symbols, and is useful for scripts that do not have many symbols or accented letters, such as the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts used mainly for European languages. Examples of SBCS encodings include ISO/IEC 646, the various ISO 8859 encodings, and the various Microsoft/IBM code pages.‍‍