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Text encoding
Text encoding is an applied instance of binary encoding.
There are around 100 characters in total required to render A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and special characters. The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) system achieves this with 8-bit code. Thus, each character symbol corresponds to a byte. As 2^8 = 256. This allows for a total of 256 characters (where only 7-bits are sufficient, a leading 0 is added).
Below are some examples of the ASCII correspondences:
| Binary | Hex | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 00100000 | 20 | [space] |
| 00100001 | 21 | ! |
| 001010112 | 2B | + |
//TODO: Add notes on unicode and UTF-8