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minus-squarehouseofleft@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoAscii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
minus-squareFuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoSome 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.
Ascii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
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.