Just wondering why do we have char type of 2 bytes size in C# (.NET) unlike 1 byte in other programming languages?
Just wondering why do we have char type of 2 bytes size in C#
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Just wondering why do we have char type of 2 bytes size in C# (.NET) unlike 1 byte in other programming languages?
A char is unicode in C#, therefore the number of possible characters exceeds 255. So you’ll need two bytes.
Extended ASCII for example has a 255-char set, and can therefore be stored in one single byte. That’s also the whole purpose of the
System.Text.Encodingnamespace, as different systems can have different charsets, and char sizes. C# can therefore handle one/four/etc. char bytes, but Unicode UTF-16 is default.