A few questiosn about encoding

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Nick the Gr33k <support at superhost.gr>wrote:

> 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?
>
>

> And this is specific to python how?
>


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