[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Chinese AVS video decoder

Bobby Bingham uhmmmm
Sun Jul 2 06:47:47 CEST 2006


> And it's very reasonable to have such a unit be a standard type, but I
> still don't think it makes much sense to call it "char" when it
> apparently has nothing to do with character data as such.
>

But back in the day, when it was given the name "char", they seem to have  
only been thinking about Western European languages.  And from that view,  
you can fit a single character in a byte.  Though as you've noticed, that  
idea was rather short-sighted and shows its age now.

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Bobby Bingham




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