Why Do English Characters Need Fewer Bytes To Represent Them Than Characters In Other Alphabets
While most of us have probably never stopped to think about it, alphabetical characters are not all the same size in the number of bytes it takes to represent them. But why is that? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. Partial ASCII Chart screenshot courtesy of Wikipedia....