And you didn't even touch on fixed and variable-width asian character sets, like...

masklinn on Aug 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Codec Confusion in Python

And you didn't even touch on fixed and variable-width asian character sets, like Shift-JIS (variable 1 or 2 bytes) or Big5 + extensions (ETEN or CP950, fixed 2 bytes)