> That's very odd.
> Normally parity is used with less than 8 data bits, as in 7E1
> or 7O1 Everything I've worked with that was 8 bit, was 8N1.

Not in my experience. I have seen (and was hence forced to use) 8/N,
8/E, and 8/O, and of course the various 7/x. The number before the slash
is definitely the number of data bits, exclusing parity. When 8/E is
used to mean 7 data bits + even parity that is simply a documentation
error.

Wouter van Ooijen

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