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does ascii have one of the bits reserved for parity check? This part confuses me: "Each ASCII character is 8 bits wide, or one byte. The result of this means t
by chaimanmeow 3y ago
does ascii have one of the bits reserved for parity check? This part confuses me:
"Each ASCII character is 8 bits wide, or one byte. The result of this means that if each bit is either a 1 or a 0 that there are only 128 possible combinations of ASCII characters."
If all 8 bits are used for data there should be 255 possible combinations.
- beardyw 3y agoI thought ASCII only used 7 bits for the basic set, which would be 128. The remaining 128 seems to be used for special or language specific characters, but varies somehow.
- mikecoles 3y agoI'm uncertain, but you may be remembering 'code pages'. From the site below, you can click different code pages to see the changes in extended ascii. https://www.ascii-codes.com/ https://www.ascii-codes.com/
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