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 ...

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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, ...

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.