[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Chinese AVS video decoder
Jan Knutar
jknutar
Sun Jul 2 16:47:04 CEST 2006
On Sunday 02 July 2006 07:47, Bobby Bingham wrote:
> > 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.
There's nothing preventing char from being 16 bits though. Or 12.
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