•Type char is primitive in
Java
•A char is really an
int
•In the old days characters were just small integers
•The ASCII character set contains 128 characters numbered 0-127
•one byte, 8 bits: 00000000 to 11111111 in binary (0-255
decimal)
•ascii codes are the bytes with the high bit 0
• Googling for
ASCII code will find lots of information
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