And even worse, a UTF-16 document can’t be transmitted across the Internet, because some of its bytes (such as the 04 in our example) are not legal character values. What’s necessary is a Unicode ...

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Using even just one such non-ASCII character in your password can make brute force and dictionary attacks infeasible. Since the number of password permutations is x y, the use of the baht symbol makes ...

This ingenious system uses different numbers of bytes for different characters. Characters that appear in ASCII continue to use a single byte. Some other character sets (for example, Arabic, Greek, ...

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.

When you hit a byte that starts with a 0, you know it’s a 1-byte plain ASCII character. When it starts with 11, you know it’s a start byte.

Extended ASCII uses 8 bits (1 byte) per character, giving a character set of 256 characters. Example. The file size calculation = number of characters x bytes per character.