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minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-221 days agoASCII 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
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoIs ascii base-7 fandom’s strongest argument…
minus-squarehouseofleft@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 days agoAscii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
minus-squareFuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 days 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.
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.
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.