I asked because, as Philippe said, an octet is the same as an 8-bit
byte.
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell -----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 "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? --steffenReceived on Mon Sep 02 2013 - 19:11:12 CDT
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