Small change for the desktop entry spec

Nikolai Weibull now at bitwi.se
Mon Jul 2 01:28:43 PDT 2007


On 7/2/07, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> On 6/29/07, Bastian, Waldo <waldo.bastian at intel.com> wrote:

> > Maybe it should have said "8-bit octets" instead of "8-bit characters".

> I think "8-bit bytes" is enough. BTW, being curious: doesn't "octet"
> mean "a wide byte?" (as opposed to 7-bit bytes used by some protocols)

Isn't it enough to say octet?  Octet, after all, means a set of eight elements.

  nikolai


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