If you want them all to have the same length, no. But even in practice this is not the case anymore, e.g. the most common encoding UTF-8 uses 8 bits for the ASC

If you want them all to have the same length, no. But even in practice this is not the case anymore, e.g. the most common encoding UTF-8 uses 8 bits for the ASCII characters and then 16/24/32 bits for the lesser used code points. And there are some exotic UTF-5/6/7 variants as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encoding...