On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> On 28/06/2011 01:58, Guy Harris wrote:
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>> 2) Windows, where "Unicode" generally means "UTF-16", and APIs that return strings encoded as sequences of octets rather than hexadectets probably return strings in the local code page.
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> Is this a first sighting of a new word "hexadectet"?
No.
> Google doesn't have an entry for it.
An entry where?
When I did a Google search for "hexadectet", it assumed I meant "hexadentate", but when I told it that I really did mean "hexadectet", it found items such as
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming-02.txt
"4.7. Hexadectet
"Hexadectet" is directly derived from IPv4's "octet", thus techni-
cally correct and probably convenient to get used to. On the other
hand, it is much harder to pronounce."
and
http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/old-archive1/msg02577.html
from 1992:
"I hasten to admit that modeling the path between the decoder and
the richtext parser as a hexadectet stream has its own problems,
mainly in that it makes the richtext parser harder to write (one
has to be careful before using any standard string manipulation
routines)."