Assertion: byte's character | /r/Desires | one byte
Facets:
value: to encode
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The first 128 characters (US-ASCII) need one byte.
text: The next 1,920 characters need two bytes to encode, which covers the remainder of almost all Latin-script alphabets, and also Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana and N'Ko alphabets, as well as Combining Diacritical Marks.