Archived tweet #11485 from the @leastfixedpoint Twitter Archive

The internet: 8 bit bytes, big-endian, and ASCII or UTF-8, more or less. Telephony: ok some of this uses 7-bit bytes, and there's uh mixed endianness in places, and some of these character sets look a bit odd Finance: OH FUCK IT'S ALL BCD AND WAS THAT EBCDIC I JUST GLIMPSED