HP 9000 User Manual page 212

Glossary
Note
For additional information on terms used with HP- UX, please
see the Glossary section of the HP- UX Reference, vol. 1.
alternate character set
A code set used to represent special, ancillary characters.
application program
A program which performs a specific task for the end-user.
ARABIC8
The Hewlett-Packard supported 8-bit code set for the Arabic language.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 128-character
code set represented by 7-bit binary values. (ASCII does not define the
value of the eighth bit.) Also, referred to as USASCII.
base character set
Glossary
A code set consisting of the linguistic characters fundamental to a language.
BIG5
bit
The HP-supported 16-bit code set for BIG5 Traditional Chinese, the
language of the Republic of China.
A contraction of BInary digiT. A bit can have a value of 0 or 1.
byte
A unit of data storage consisting of 8 bits. A byte can represent one ASCII,
KANA8, GREEK8, TURKISH8, ARABIC8, or ROMAN8 character.
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