Comment by tmiku
See mort96's comments about 7-bit ASCII and parity bits (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225911). Kind of archaic now, though - 8-bit bytes with the error checking living elsewhere in the stack seems to be preferred.
See mort96's comments about 7-bit ASCII and parity bits (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225911). Kind of archaic now, though - 8-bit bytes with the error checking living elsewhere in the stack seems to be preferred.