Unicode questions

[Steve Holden]

On 10/25/2010 1:42 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <mailman.31.1287517442.2218.python-list at python.org>, Petite 
> Abeille wrote:
> 
>> Characters vs. Bytes
> 
> And why do certain people insist on referring to bytes as “octets”?

Because back in the old days bytes were of varying sizes on different
architectures - indeed the DECSystem-10 and -20 had instructions that
could be parameterized as to byte size. So octet was an unambiguous term
for the (now standard) 8-bit byte.

regards
 Steve
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