For example, the UTF-8 encoding of Russian "yu" is D18E. Both D1 and 8E are legal ASCII character bytes: on a Mac they’re an em-dash followed by an e-acute. Indeed, you can just type those two ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

ASCII code was extended to 8 bits (a byte) in order to be able to encode more characters (this is also known as Extended ASCII Code). This code assigns the values 0 to 255 ( coded as 8 bits, that is, ...

Traditionally, Python strings are built out of bytes—that is, you can think of a Python string as a sequence of bytes. If those bytes happen to align with characters, as in ASCII, you're in great ...

The first block of 128 Unicode characters, Basic Latin, maps precisely to ASCII, including the unusable, obsolete teletype control codes. One of the useful attributes of Unicode is that all 256 byte ...

From there, you can fill the equivalent of about one printed 8.5 x 11-inch page with any combination of plain text, ASCII characters, or emojis. The actual byte limit depends on where you’d like ...

The OP_RETURN field in Bitcoin transactions allows for up to 80 bytes of data. Since each ASCII character takes up 1 byte, that leaves room for around 80 characters in a single transaction.

Each element of the result is a single character with an ordinal position in the computer's character set that is specified by the corresponding numeric element in the argument. These numeric elements ...