I pretty much stuck to the term byte for that reason. A byte is eight 1/0 bits. A character starts to get off into cultural issues.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...) On 2019-12-04 13:52, Tom Marchant wrote: > The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to > indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable. Even that breaks down if you choose to let wide characters (e.g., UTF-16 or UTF-32) into the conversation. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
