Re: Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

[Josh Simmons <simmons.44@...>]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Josh Simmons <simmons.44@gmail.com> wrote:
>> and there's no concept of a byte in C.
>
> No. There is. Citing from the C89 Draft:
>
>  * Byte --- the unit of data storage in the execution environment
>   large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the
>   execution environment.  It shall be possible to express the address of
>   each individual byte of an object uniquely.  A byte is composed of a
>   contiguous sequence of bits, the number of which is
>   implementation-defined.  The least significant bit is called the
>   low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit.
>
> C99:
> byte
> addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of
> the basic character
> set of the execution environment
>
> Both then distinguish between single-byte and multi-byte characters.
>
>

I knew that posting without checking my facts would come back to bite me. :)

So to backflip, I agree, I don't like the use of character at all
since it's so heavily loaded with the idea of text and unicode
especially. However maybe octet is a better terminology than byte.