On approximately 5/20/2008 1:44 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Glenn Linderman: > I'm unaware of any encodings that do not fit one of the above classes. > I'd like to hear about any others. I should point out that I am aware of the old 6-bit encoding, that was used to squeeze more characters into memory that was comprised of 36-bit words. That same architecture also supported a 9-bit encoding. And I'm aware of packed decimal as used by Cobol. I didn't mention them in my main posting, because they are very, very special cases, or are not 8-bit byte oriented, which nearly all modern architectures are (for data paths, at least). -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration NetworkingThread Previous | Thread Next