Ah, but how big is a character? MUMPS deals in characters reguardless of the number of octets required to represent it.
1Octet = 8 bits Ascii - 1 octet/character Unicode, Kanji,Katakana,etc - 2 octets/character ISO-10646 - 4octets/character Then there were 36 bit words (6 (6-bit) characters per word (Univac FIELDDATA), or 10 6-bit characters/word, but each of these are mapping systems for characters. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruben Safir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] more M read questions > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 15:13 -0400, smcphelan wrote: > > Here, here. Chris also stated this. ANSI standard M is not really designed > > to handle binary data. This is one reason Intersystems added extensions (if > > you wish to call it that). But then you are bound to a specific M vendor's > > implementation, in this case, Cache. > > > > This is all beyond me because all data is just data. ASCI, Binary, all > the same thing. > > No matter how you look at it, a byte can only have one of 256 > representations. The rest is all interpretation. > > Ruben > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
