On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> One ASCII character fits in one byte. One Unicode character doesn't,
> and encoded as UTF-8, might take between one and three bytes. The null
> terminator takes one byte, of course.
>

Slight correction: one to four bytes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

ASCII text is, by definition, also UTF-8, so to say that a Unicode character
is doesn't use 1 byte isn't strictly correct.

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