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Wide and narrow characters

XML was developed to use wide (16-bit) Unicode characters as its natural mode. COBOL uses narrow (8-bit) ASCII characters. All XML data that is generated by XML Extensions is represented in UTF-8 format, which is essentially ASCII with extensions for representing 16-bit and larger characters and is compatible with Unicode. (UTF-8 is a form of Unicode.)
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