How ASCII lost and unicode won

Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by drdaeman on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:30AM (#6012292)

> What’s a byte?

> A byte is a set of 8 bits.

Nitpicking, that's octet, not byte. I believe the distinction was lost and don't think byte has a proper definition anymore.

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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by fosap on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:38AM (#6012324)

But for historical encodings that kind of matters. Because a byte was not always 8 bit we have to deal with utf-7 and had to ensure things where 8 bit clean. And utf-9.

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