Discover The Bytes Behind The Characters: A Comprehensive Guide To Character Encoding
How Many Bytes in a Char? The number of bytes in a character depends on the character encoding scheme used. Common encodings like ASCII allocate 7 bits, representing 128 characters. Extended ASCII uses 7-8 bits, and variable-length schemes like UTF-8 use 1-4 bytes per character. UTF-16 employs 16 bits, while UTF-32 reserves 32 bits per…