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Does the term multibyte refer to a charset whose characters can - but don't have to be - wider than 1 byte, (e.g. UTF-8) or does it refer to character sets which are in any case wider than 1 byte (e.g. UTF-16) ? In other words: What is meant if anybody talks about multibyte character sets? The term is ambiguous, but in my internationalization work, we typically avoided the term "multibyte character sets" to refer to Unicode-based encodings. Generally, we used the term only for legacy encoding schemes that had one or more bytes to define each character (excluding encodings that require only one

What is meant by framework, programming language and scripting language? I think Daniel Pryden's points are excellent - I voted him up. I'd just like to add a couple of minor additions. Programming languages, like C and C++, used to have a compiling and linking step that rendered the source code into a machine-language form that was run by the operating system. Scripting languages, like the Unix Bourne, Korn, and C shell, were not compiled or linked like C and C++. (Thanks to Daniel Pryden's correction and citation of the Unix scripting languages.) Since virtual machines have become so common

In the software world, it seems that SCM is an unfortunately overloaded acronym. It can mean:- Source Code Management Software Configuration Management Which one of these is the dominant term? Do they mean the same thing? To me Source Code Management is essentially synonymous with Version Control. Whereas Software Configuration Management is a larger subject, which potentially includes Build and Release Management as well. However looking on Wikipedia, it lists Subversion as a Software Configuration Management tool, which is at most only tangentially true. Build and Software Management has

I still live in this ambiguity: conceptually what's the difference between a statement and a query in SQL? Can anybody give a definition for each of them? It would be useful, for example when choosing variables names inside programs in a way that will be clear for everybody. Thanks! ADDITIONALLY: How can I call a chunk of SQL code made by more than one statement where statements are separated by a semicolon ( ; )? Who already replied can edit his answer. Many thanks! A statement is any text that the database engine recognizes as a valid command. As of SQL-92 : An SQL-statement is a string of

For example: $names = {[bob:27, billy:43, sam:76]}; and then be able to reference it like this: $names[bob] Jacob http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php <?php $array = array( "foo" => "bar", "bar" => "foo", ); // as of PHP 5.4 $array = [ "foo" => "bar", "bar" => "foo", ]; ?> Standard arrays can be used that way. Brént Russęll No, there are no dictionaries in php. The closest thing you have is an array. However, an array is different than a dictionary in that arrays have both an index and a key. Dictionaries only have keys and no index. What do I mean by that? $array = array( "foo" =

I'm trying to figure out what this sort of thing is called, and eventually how I can create one in a web browser. It looks like this (screenshot of the first app that came to mind): The specific component/pattern I'm looking for is the two list boxes ("Included Gear" and "Excluded Gear") that represent inclusion/exclusion of items from a set. I'm not really looking for the WPF name (if there is one) but it might be helpful. I am looking for the name of this thingy, if there is one, and if you really want to make my day, you can point me toward a jQuery or YUI way of making one of these dealies