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ASCII codes are seven bit #256

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David-Klemenc opened this issue Nov 29, 2020 · 0 comments

David-Klemenc commented Nov 29, 2020 •

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There is an error here: Types as Bits (chapter about strings)

So every character needed to fit in eight bits, meaning only 256 characters could be represented!

Since the context is ASCII encoding - this should be corrected to seven bits and 128 characters

ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers

wikipedia link, ascii table link

P.S. I first mistakenly reported the issue here

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ASCII codes are seven bit elm/elm-lang.org#852

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