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>The distinction between bytes and characters is a fairly recent development. When I bought my first computer in the 1990s it came with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.22, and the german versions of those use different "code pages"... In the Computer Science Tripos at Cambridge University they always used to ask a few open-ended questions, and I remember one from the early 1970s along the lines "Why is character encoding such a difficult thing to get right?" Forty years on, getting it right hasn't become any easier. However, I think any student answering that question would have been expected to understand the difference between characters and the bytes used to represent them. Michael Kay Saxonica
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