User talk:Red9828

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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ASCII[edit]

Yours is a common misunderstanding but no, ASCII was always and only seven bits. See ASCII#Bit width for background. You are partly right in respect of how ASCII was stored: in 32 bit word systems (IBM etc), one padding bit was added; in 36 bit word systems (Univac etc), either two padding bits were added to every character or five characters were stored per word with a single padding bit for all five. Nine track tape had two padding bits or one padding and one parity bit.

It is common to see the ISO 8859 series (especially ISO Latin-1 called "extended ASCII" but there was never an ANSI standard of that name. (As a member of ISO, ANSI participated in designing the 8859 series of standards.) --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]