no compression and this wave coding so ASCII is a system that for everything that's on your keyboard will assign seven bits so every character you can type can be represented with seven bits so two to seven possible characters could be represented this way what's nice about this very easy for kody and decoded there's a very simple one-to-one mapping always going to the seven bits for that character and back out to the character but if you encode this way you're not exploiting its disco parents is Nagano it's not compressing your