Storing ASCII characters in an 8-bit byte. The term itself is misleading, as the ASCII code is always seven bits, not eight. However, since the common storage element is the 8-bit byte, the term ...

ASCII, means American standard code for information exchange. It is a 7 -bit character code where each individual bit represents a unique character. I used the 8-bit ASCII table with 256 characters ...

The 1-byte system used in 8-bit ASCII can only represent up to 256 characters. Unicode uses a 2-byte system for each character, which means that more than 65,000 characters can be represented.

7-Bit and 8-Bit ASCII The left side of this chart shows the original 128 ASCII codes (7-bit), and the right side contains 128 more. Together, both sides make up 8-bit ASCII.