8-bit is enough to store a single character in the ASCII character set (with room to spare for extending the character set to support say Cyrillic). Of course 8-bits are not enough to support all scripts - something like Japanese requires at least 16 bits (and for what it is worth, Unicode is 21 bits), but at that point in time bits were ...

ANSI can be many things, most being 8 bit character sets in this regard (like code page 1252 under Windows). Perhaps you were thinking of ASCII which is 7-bit and a proper subset of UTF-8. I.e. any valid ASCII stream is also a valid UTF-8 stream.

Aug 22, 2018 · Align 8-bit data at any address [don't understand this] Align 16-bit data to be contained within an aligned four-byte word; Align 32-bit data so that its base address is a multiple of four; Align 64-bit data so that its base address is a multiple of eight; Align 80-bit data so that its base address is a multiple of sixteen

Dec 24, 2013 · IEEE 754 standard single-precision (i.e., 32-bit) floats reserve 1 bit for the sign bit, 8 for the exponent, and 23 for the mantissa.

Oct 6, 2022 · The missing piece here could be that some instruction sets actually allow you to specify an 8-bit byte address and because of their implementations aligned accesses are better. Wikipedia paragraphs: naturally aligned, which generally means that the data's memory address is a multiple of the data *size.

Jan 29, 2013 · In normal scenario where a boolean memory reference points to the address of 1 byte in memory which contains either all zeros (for false) or all ones (for true), now to have 1 bit per boolean, you will point 8 booleans to the same byte, but you can't tell which bit inside this byte that gives you the value, so beside the normal memory reference, you will need a second …

Apr 24, 2021 · The key you need to understand is a "multiplexer". Imagine that you have an 8-bit computer with 8-bit addresses, wired to a single RAM chip. Inside the chip, a multiplexer decodes the 8-bit address to one of 256 values, effectively turning on one of 256 wires.

In 8-bit one's complement, the value 8 is represented as 00001000 and -8 as 11110111. Two's complement. This is the most common representation used nowadays for negative integers because it is the easiest to work with for computers, but it …

Jul 7, 2017 · The 8-bit binary pattern 10000000 (aka 0x80), can represent: in Windows Code Page 1252: the EURO symbol; in Latin-1: a control character; in UTF-8: a continuation byte contributing 6 bits of zero to a code point ; Even getting the value as a number requires an interpretation: as an unsigned byte: 128; as a signed byte in two's complement form: -128

Also, base64 encoding is designed for input data in 8-bit groups. The encoding is designed so that the decoder may determine exactly the number of bytes that were used in the original data. However, this granularity extends only to 8-bit groups and does not extend down to …