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Zeph_The_Hungry_Loli
Zeph_The_Hungry_Loli

Reputation: 87

What is the encoding used by ASCII character set?

I know UNICODE character set follows the UTF encoding style. But does ASCII character set follow any encoding style?

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nvf

Reputation: 465

Unicode, formally, is the Standard. It can be implemented by different character encodings. The Unicode standard defines Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF): UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, and several other encodings. UTF-8 uses one to four bytes per code point and, being compact for Latin scripts and ASCII-compatible. The first 128 code points represent the ASCII characters, which means that any ASCII text is also a UTF-8 text.

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