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- cross-posted to:
- programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .
what about them?
ASCII was originally a 7-bit standard. If you type in ASCII on an 8-bit system, every leading bit is always
0.(Edited to specify context)
At least ASCII is forward compatible with UTF-8
Is ascii base-7 fandom’s strongest argument…
Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
Let’s store the boolean there then!!
Some old software does use 8-Bit ASCII for special/locale specific characters. Also there is this Unicode hack where the last bit is used to determine if the byte is part of a multi-byte sequence.
