On different operating systems, a word is equal to how many bytes? Can say the precise point?

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Has nothing to do with the operating system, related to encoding, ANSI code, for example, an English accounts for a byte, a man of two bytes,
If it is a Unicode encoding, an English and a man are two bytes, if UTF8 encoding, an English one byte, a Chinese account for three bytes, if Unicode16 coding, some rare man of four bytes

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To clear the original poster said what words mean, word length? Character width? ,,,

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Aniseed several writing???

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Word, English should call character
Byte bytes, English
Specific see Windows core programming, fourth edition, I see the first article is about character, best practices,

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The WORD WORD

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word English should call character
Byte bytes, English
Specific see Windows core programming, fourth edition, I see the first article is about character, best practices,

That WORD?

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to clear the original poster said what words mean, word length? Character width? ,,,

The word word

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Words, English should call character, had not heard of the ~ ~ ~
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to clear the original poster said what words mean, word length? Character width? ,,,

The word word

It refers to the storage unit, different system of word definition, DOS/Windows from 16 developed on hardware, so:
Byte=8 - bit
The word=16 - bit
Dword=32 - bit
Qword=64 - bit
Tbyte=80 - bit
Dqword/xmmword=128 - bit
Ymmword=256 - bit
Zmmword=512 - bit

Other systems may have different definitions, and even early computers, byte is not fixed 8, 6000, the CDC byte is six, word is 60

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to clear the original poster said what words mean, word length? Character width? ,,,

The word word

It refers to the storage unit, different system of word definition, DOS/Windows from 16 developed on hardware, so:
Byte=8 - bit
The word=16 - bit
Dword=32 - bit
Qword=64 - bit
Tbyte=80 - bit
Dqword/xmmword=128 - bit
Ymmword=256 - bit
Zmmword=512 - bit

Other systems may have different definitions, and even early computers, byte is not fixed 8, 6000, the CDC byte is six, word is 60

If it refers to the word length and width of character?

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Word length generally refers to the width of the processor general-purpose registers, namely the CPU can be processed by the conventional integer arithmetic a digits, floating point, multimedia instruction can handle more digits at a time, but do not belong to the normal operation, so not as a judgment (such as built-in floating-point unit can handle 64, 486 operation, but still belongs to the 32-bit processor 486),
Character width and the compiler, operating system, some compilers char is 1 byte, such as c, c + +, other compilers may be 2 bytes, such as Java, would usually 2 bytes in the Windows version of the compiler, and in the Linux/Unix version of the compiler is 4 bytes,

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Has nothing to do with the operating system, one WORD (WORD) is 16 bit, 2 bytes,