"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3 at hjp.at>: > On 2017-10-13 05:28, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Not only does "byte" not always mean "8 bits", but >> "char" isn't always short for "character"... > > True. Well, it does, in my universe. That was cast in stone 10**-32 seconds after the Big Bang. Marko