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Message: [QUOTE="Macnerd, post: 233207, member: 14312"] Is 8-bit ASCII universal now? I'd love to create a conlang. I came up with the idea to use exclusive-or to create an alphabet for my conlang. I know that ASCII used to be 7-bit. I wonder if ALL printers & ALL word processors now use 8-bit ASCII. I know that some of the bits are for non-printable things like carriage return. It would be fairly easy to create a computer program that uses a random number generator to create printable characters using exclusive-or. And also use exclusive-or to decode. Is my assumption correct that all printers & all word processors use 8-bit ASCII? [/QUOTE]