This could conveniently be stored in 7 bits. Space was 32, the letter "A" was 65, etc.
The only characters that mattered were good old unaccented English letters, and we had a code for them called ASCII which was able to represent every character using a number between 32 and 127. :)Īs a history I'll point to some quotes from there: (Thank you very much Joel! :) ) Joel Spolsky has written a very good introductionary article on the absolute minimum every dev should know on Unicode Character Encoding.īear with me here because this is going to be somewhat of a looong answer. I'd like to answer this in a more web-like manner and in order to answer it so we need a little history.
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