A few questiosn about encoding

[Nick the Gr33k]

On 15/6/2013 5:59 μμ, Roy Smith wrote:

> And, yes, especially in networking, everybody talks about octets when
> they want to make sure people understand what they mean.

1 byte = 8 bits

in networking though since we do not use encoding schemes with variable 
lengths like utf-8 is, how do we separate when a byte value start and 
when it stops?

do we need a start bit and a stop bit for that?



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