single-byte character

Typeglossary
DictionaryLCS
LibraryLiveCode Script
Synonymssingle-byte character,single-byte,one-byte character,1-byte character
RelatedGlossary: character, bit, Unicode, byte
Description

A character from a character set that supports 256 characters; an extended-ASCII character, as opposed to a Unicode character.

The numeric equivalent of single-byte characters is between zero and 255, for 256 total characters. 256 is 2^8, so it takes 8 bits (one byte) to store an extended-ASCII character.

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