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minus-squareIron Lynxlinkfedilink5•21 hours agoASCII was originally a 7-bit standard. If you type in ASCII, every leading bit is always 0. At least ASCII is forward compatible with UTF-8
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 day agoAscii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
what about them?
ASCII was originally a 7-bit standard. If you type in ASCII, every leading bit is always
0.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!!