That is definitely true for early terminals, however the parity bit got tossed after things got less lossy. There was an 8 bit ASCII definition called "Extende

That is definitely true for early terminals, however the parity bit got tossed after things got less lossy. There was an 8 bit ASCII definition called "Extended ASCII" which was (is?) used for things like Curses which describes a lot of characters which have been remapped in UTF-8.