On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:01 AM, John Cowan wrote:
Graham Fawcett scripsit:
So, a byte string would simply be a string with a null auxilliary
vector.
That doesn't work. A byte-string is not a sequence of characters from
the ASCII repertoire, it's a sequence of characters from the
repertoire
{ASCII set, characters numbered 129 through 255 with uncertain
semantics}.
Well, except on EBCDIC machines, where the repertoire is that of some
unspecified EBCDIC code page.
In my usage "byte-string" means "octet-string". See the "levenshtein"
egg. I mean a "blob".
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Best Wishes,
Kon
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