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Re: ... replacement for 14.4 and C6.2 (interchange encodings)



On 2014 Jun 26, at 12:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Here you could say "the range of a signed octet, namely 0..127", which
> is a notion more general than C.

Actually the range of a signed octet is -128..127 ...

More precisely, the range of an octet is -128..127 when regarded as a 2s-complement signed integer ...

Or -127..127 when regarded as a 1s-complement signed integer ...

John P