In any case, there is nothing about "multi-octet" versus "multi-byte"
that makes one fixed-length and the other variable-length.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell
-----Original Message-----
From: Asmus Freytag
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 19:43
To: Doug Ewell
Cc: SteffenDaodeNurpmeso ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: ASCII control codes in sequences of multibyte character
sets
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./
