Jim Starkey wrote:

>I will confess, however, that I haven't a clue of what charset NONE is supposed to mean. I don't
>suppose that it means that data types are limited to numbers...

I think the reason people want a character set of "NONE" is because "octets" is a word that has no meaning to most of us who
program for Windows in languages like Delphi and didn't start programming until after the term "byte" took over (at least, in
the U.S.). We naturally assume that "None" is the character set we should use if we want to store raw data- a specific number of
bytes, that we're going to map to and from some data structure. We expect it to sort, if at all, in the same order that a byte
by byte comparison would sort them.

I personally don't really understand the difference between "octets" and "none". Is there one, or is this just a convention
that helps document the intended purpose of the data?