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./
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> -----Original Message----- From: SteffenDaodeNurpmeso
> Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 12:45
> To: Doug Ewell
> Cc: unicode_at_unicode.org
> Subject: Re: ASCII control codes in sequences of multibyte character sets
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> "Doug Ewell" <doug_at_ewellic.org> 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
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Received on Mon Sep 02 2013 - 20:45:58 CDT