That's correct.  This is the example of stop-bit encoding that I have referred to in the past. It's actually the FAST (FIX Adapted for STreaming) protocol, and not the standard FIX format.

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Steve Hanson
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Co-Chair, OGF DFDL Working Group
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From:        Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com>
To:        "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>,
Date:        15/07/2014 18:34
Subject:        [DFDL-WG] stop bit encoding
Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org

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The FIX protocols (financial interchange)  make use of stop bit encoding.
I have heard of other places using this also. This is modern, current, non-legacy usage.

This is the length encoding where the most-significant bit of a byte is used to determine whether there are more ASCII characters or not. The last byte will have the most-significant bit of 1, prior bytes most-significant bit of 0. Minimum length in this length kind is 1.

It seems we are missing this lengthKind, which applies only to text in the ASCII/US-ASCII encoding.

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