cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agoTell me the truth ...piefed.jeena.netexternal-linkmessage-square154linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarehouseofleft@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWait till you here about every ascii letter. . .
minus-squarehouseofleft@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoAscii needs seven bits, but is almost always encoded as bytes, so every ascii letter has a throwaway bit.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoLet’s store the boolean there then!!
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months 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
Wait till you here about every ascii letter. . .
what about them?
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!!
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