On 9/2/2013 5:08 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
I asked because, as Philippe said, an octet is the same as an 8-bit byte.
Yes, that's the standard definition of "octet", er 8-bit byte.
Never having encountered a non-8-bit byte anywhere in the wild, I've
always ceded the field of octets to nitpickers.
A./
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell
-----Original Message----- From: SteffenDaodeNurpmeso
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 12:45
To: Doug Ewell
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ASCII control codes in sequences of multibyte character sets
"Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> wrote:
|How would you define the difference between multi-octet and
|multi-byte?
hm, to me multi-octet is an encoding which uses a fixed amount of
octets (8-bit bytes) per character, e.g., UCS-2, UCS-4 etc.,
whereas a multi[-]byte character set is designed as a 8-bit
character set, but which may use multiple 8-bit bytes per
character, possibly even fixed.
I.e., in the end i think it comes out as "are embedded NUL octets
a regular part of the character set".
You're asking ... i'm sure there is an officially accepted
definition somewhere?
--steffen
