On Jan 18, 2014, at 9:40 AM, ph10@??? wrote:
> ... There isn't really a good word for this concept; I've mostly
> been using "data unit" in the documentation to mean "byte in the 8-bit
> library, short (halfword) in the 16-bit library, or int (word) in the
> 32-bit library".
I believe "code unit" is the standard term, as far as Unicode is concerned.
"The Unicode Standard uses 8-bit code units in the UTF-8 encoding form, 16-bit code units in the UTF-16 encoding form, and 32-bit code units in the UTF-32 encoding form."
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_unit
Best wishes,
Tom
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