Re: Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 04/09/2011 22.08, Gregory Bonik wrote:
> Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> > IIRC C standard doesn't guarantee that a char is the same size of a
> > byte, although that's almost ubiquitous. So a "char" could be not a
> > "byte" on some exotic platforms.
>
> By definition, bytes do not necessarily consist of 8 bits. There can be
> 7-bit bytes or whatever.

Ok. I stand corrected. Thank you for the feedback.

>Thus I think it's OK to equate C's char to a
> byte. The word "character" is quite misleading because of the wide use
> of UTF-8, while "byte" sounds unambiguously.
>
> --Gregory

-- Lorenzo