Name: single-byte character

Synonyms: single-byte character,single-byte,one-byte character,1-byte character

Type: glossary

Description:
A <character> from a character set that supports 256 <character|characters>; an extended-ASCII <character>, as opposed to a <Unicode> <character>. 
 
The numeric equivalent of single-byte <character|characters> is between zero and 255, for 256 total <character|characters>. 256 is 2^8, so it takes 8 <bit|bits> (one <byte>) to store an extended-ASCII <character>.

References: character (glossary), bit (glossary), Unicode (glossary), byte (glossary)

Tags: text processing
