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Encoding/Decoding in .Net

Encoding/Decoding in .Net

sam.adams61	24 Sep, 2009 - 04:02 PM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Jul, 2008 Posts: 230 Thanked: 10 times My Contributions	Hi guys, I'm working my way through a text book & at the moment reading about Encoding and Decoding. By way of example the author gives the following concerning ASCII: It stores code points 0 through 127 in 1 byte, code points 128 through 2047 in 2 bytes(ie, Latin, Greek, Cryllic, Hebrew), and code points 2048 through 65535 in 3 bytes(ie, Chinese, Japanese). Therefore, given a file containing 1000 ASCII characters, but also has 2 Greek characters and 3 Chinese characters would take up 1008 bytes of disk space. My question is, how can this be? I cannot see the logic behind that answer. Could someone please clear the fog for me? Many thanks in advance for any helpful advice.
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