data: sms, byte, octet
authorFrantišek Kučera <franta-hg@frantovo.cz>
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:47:13 +0200
changeset 26cf21d062a601
parent 25 00f9a66da2eb
child 27 c04e26b672e9
data: sms, byte, octet
data/dictionary.xml
     1.1 --- a/data/dictionary.xml	Thu Jul 11 18:31:52 2013 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/data/dictionary.xml	Thu Jul 11 18:47:13 2013 +0200
     1.3 @@ -43,7 +43,24 @@
     1.4  	</concept>
     1.5  	<concept>
     1.6  		<term abbreviation="SMS" completeForm="short message service" language="en"/>
     1.7 -		<explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
     1.8 +		<explanation language="en">
     1.9 +			<text>
    1.10 +				a service or particular short text message sent from or to a mobile phone;
    1.11 +				length of the content in one message is 140 bytes (octets), the number of characters depends on encoding, if 7-bit one is used, it is well known 160 characters;
    1.12 +				the number „160“ is iconic for SMS
    1.13 +			</text>
    1.14 +		</explanation>
    1.15 +	</concept>
    1.16 +	<concept>
    1.17 +		<term abbreviation="" completeForm="octet" language="en"/>
    1.18 +		<term abbreviation="" completeForm="byte" language="en"/>
    1.19 +		<explanation language="en">
    1.20 +			<text>
    1.21 +				a unit of digital information;
    1.22 +				byte (almost always) consists of 8 bits, which means 256 possible values (2^8);
    1.23 +				octet is a synonym for 8-bit byte which accents that we really mean the 8-bit byte (and not e.g. the 7-bit one)
    1.24 +			</text>
    1.25 +		</explanation>
    1.26  	</concept>
    1.27  	<concept>
    1.28  		<term abbreviation="MMS" completeForm="multimedia messaging service" language="en"/>