8-bit string format

BTW: I'm not sure where you got it from, or if it is just a language thing, but that is a nonsensical term. An "8-bit string" would be 1 byte long.

As is "the 32/64-bit string format". 4 or 8 bytes respectively.

An '8-bit character string format' maybe. More usually known simply as "a byte string".

And "32-bit/64-bit character string", though that's still not right because the characters can be "upto nn-bits". But, of course you can't have a character with a non-power of 8 bits.

So, "varible length character string", but that sounds like the string is variable length rather than the characters. Which I guess is why they are usually referred to as "Unicode strings" or "Wide character strings". But neither of those is quite right for these peculiar, useless beasties.

So, how about "Variable width character strings". A quick google shows a few other have hit upon that.

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In reply to Re^44: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by BrowserUk
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