"Doug Ewell" <d...@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
