Code Unit
The code unit, is a unit used for character encoding.
- With US-ASCII, code unit is 7 bits.
- With UTF-8, code unit is 8 bits.
- With EBCDIC, code unit is 8 bits.
- With UTF-16, code unit is 16 bits.
- With UTF-32, code unit is 32 bits.
Then the encoding associates a meaning with each of some (or, usually, all) possible values for either a single code unit or a sequence of code units.
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