[quote:5aa44ac3be="the_w0rd"][quote:5aa44ac3be="GreenMan"]I think that you need to start an geek thread for this stuff. Or type it out in ENGLISH![/quote:5aa44ac3be]
First of all, I think you need to learn Ennglish yourself. "an geek" - The word geek starts with a consonant not a vowel and therefore should be preceeded with "a" not "an"...

LoL...I could have defintely explained it with a lot more complexity. I was trying to explain it to where everyone would understand it...I'll try to add a little info.

OK...let me start off simple...

The are 8 bits in one byte. One character equals one byte so the letter "A" is one byte or 8 bits. This is the same for all 256 characters such as "F" or "c" or any lettre symbol/character that you find on your keyboard. The list of characters starts with 0 not 1, so if there are 256 characters, the list would be from 0-255, 0 being the first character. the first 32 (0-31) characters are considered to be "special" characters. These show up as either nothing or little square blocks in most browsers. Characters 32-126 (actually being the 33rd to the 127th) are the standard symbols found on your keyboard. 32 is the space character. 33 is the exclamation point. And so on. Here is a table for reference:

Char # Hex# Value
-----------------------
  32 0020 SPACE 
! 33 0021 EXCLAMATION MARK 
" 34 0022 QUOTATION MARK   (entity name is &amp;quot;) 
# 35 0023 NUMBER SIGN 
$ 36 0024 DOLLAR SIGN 
% 37 0025 PERCENT SIGN 
&amp; 38 0026 AMPERSAND   (entity name is &amp;amp;) 
' 39 0027 APOSTROPHE 
( 40 0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS 
) 41 0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS 
* 42 002A ASTERISK 
+ 43 002B PLUS SIGN 
, 44 002C COMMA 
- 45 002D HYPHEN-MINUS 
. 46 002E FULL STOP 
/ 47 002F SOLIDUS 
0 48 0030 DIGIT ZERO 
1 49 0031 DIGIT ONE 
2 50 0032 DIGIT TWO 
3 51 0033 DIGIT THREE 
4 52 0034 DIGIT FOUR 
5 53 0035 DIGIT FIVE 
6 54 0036 DIGIT SIX 
7 55 0037 DIGIT SEVEN 
8 56 0038 DIGIT EIGHT 
9 57 0039 DIGIT NINE 
: 58 003A COLON 
; 59 003B SEMICOLON 
&lt; 60 003C LESS-THAN SIGN   (entity name is &amp;lt;) 
= 61 003D EQUALS SIGN 
&gt; 62 003E GREATER-THAN SIGN   (entity name is &amp;gt;) 
? 63 003F QUESTION MARK 
@ 64 0040 COMMERCIAL AT 
A 65 0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A 
B 66 0042 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B 
C 67 0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C 
D 68 0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D 
E 69 0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E 
F 70 0046 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F 
G 71 0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G 
H 72 0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H 
I 73 0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I 
J 74 004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J 
K 75 004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K 
L 76 004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L 
M 77 004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M 
N 78 004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N 
O 79 004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O 
P 80 0050 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P 
Q 81 0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q 
R 82 0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R 
S 83 0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S 
T 84 0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T 
U 85 0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U 
V 86 0056 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V 
W 87 0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W 
X 88 0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X 
Y 89 0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y 
Z 90 005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z 
[ 91 005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET 
\ 92 005C REVERSE SOLIDUS 
] 93 005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET 
^ 94 005E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT 
_ 95 005F LOW LINE 
` 96 0060 GRAVE ACCENT 
a 97 0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A 
b 98 0062 LATIN SMALL LETTER B 
c 99 0063 LATIN SMALL LETTER C 
d 100 0064 LATIN SMALL LETTER D 
e 101 0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E 
f 102 0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F 
g 103 0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G 
h 104 0068 LATIN SMALL LETTER H 
i 105 0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I 
j 106 006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J 
k 107 006B LATIN SMALL LETTER K 
l 108 006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L 
m 109 006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M 
n 110 006E LATIN SMALL LETTER N 
o 111 006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O 
p 112 0070 LATIN SMALL LETTER P 
q 113 0071 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q 
r 114 0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R 
s 115 0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S 
t 116 0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T 
u 117 0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U 
v 118 0076 LATIN SMALL LETTER V 
w 119 0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W 
x 120 0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X 
y 121 0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y 
z 122 007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z 
{ 123 007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET 
| 124 007C VERTICAL LINE 
} 125 007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET 
~ 126 007E TILDE

For now, don't pay any attention to the Hex #'s (like 007E for tilde this is hexadecimal and another subject). All these numbers (0-126) are the decimal values for each character. After 126 comes even more special characters for example this " " might look like a space. But it's not. Space is character 32. This " " is the 160th character. The main difference is that most programs take all the spaces (32) and shrink them down to a single space. Whereas most don't do this for the 160th character. So if I were to hit the space bar five times, it would most likely show up as one space. If I were to place five of the 160th character in a row, it would look like 5 individual "spaces". Example:

      - 5 spaces
      - 5 160th character
The 160th character is known as a "non-breaking space". If you know html, you've probably used the "&amp;nbsp;" control code before or at least seen it. That is this character...

Other of the special characters above 126 include "¡" the "upside-down exclamation point" which is number 161 and "¿" the "updise-down question mark" which is number 191. Every key on the jeyboard has a character value which is one byte long. So hitting "enter" or "return" is actually just like typing the letter "k" (or any other character).
It is one byte (8 bits) long. It is up to programs, in most cases the operating system, how to interperate this character. Windows interperates it as a new line.
Here is a list of special codes above 126 (127-255) (remember to just pay attention to the 1st number number...

Char # Hex# Value
--------------------------
 127 007F &lt;control&gt; (same as hitting the ctrl key)
€ 128 0080   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - euro sign; MacRoman - A diaeresis] 
 129 0081   &lt;control&gt; [MacRoman - A ring above] 
‚ 130 0082   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - single low-9 quotation mark; MacRoman - C cedilla] 
ƒ 131 0083   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - f with hook; MacRoman - E acute] 
„ 132 0084   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - double low-9 quotation mark; MacRoman - N tilde] 
… 133 0085   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - horizontal ellipsis; MacRoman - O diaeresis] 
† 134 0086   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - dagger; MacRoman - U diaeresis] 
‡ 135 0087   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - double dagger; MacRoman - a acute] 
ˆ 136 0088   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - modifier letter circumflex accent; MacRoman - a grave] 
‰ 137 0089   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - per mille sign; MacRoman - a circumflex] 
Š 138 008A   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - S caron; MacRoman - a diaeresis] 
‹ 139 008B   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - single left-pointing angle quotation mark; MacRoman - a tilde] 
Œ 140 008C   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - OE ligature; MacRoman - a ring above] 
 141 008D   &lt;control&gt; [MacRoman - c cedilla] 
Ž 142 008E   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - Z caron; MacRoman - e acute] 
 143 008F   &lt;control&gt; [MacRoman - e grave] 
 144 0090   &lt;control&gt; [MacRoman - e circumflex] 
‘ 145 0091   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - left single quotation mark; MacRoman - e diaeresis] 
’ 146 0092   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - right single quotation mark; MacRoman - i acute] 
“ 147 0093   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - left double quotation mark; MacRoman - i grave] 
” 148 0094   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - right double quotation mark; MacRoman - i circumflex] 
• 149 0095   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - bullet; MacRoman - i diaeresis] 
– 150 0096   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - en dash; MacRoman - n tilde] 
— 151 0097   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - em dash; MacRoman - o acute] 
˜ 152 0098   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - small tilde; MacRoman - o grave] 
™ 153 0099   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - trade mark sign; MacRoman - o circumflex] 
š 154 009A   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - s caron; MacRoman - o diaeresis] 
› 155 009B   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - single right-pointing angle quotation mark; MacRoman - o tilde] 
œ 156 009C   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - oe ligature; MacRoman - u acute] 
 157 009D   &lt;control&gt; [MacRoman - u grave] 
ž 158 009E   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - z caron; MacRoman - u circumflex] 
Ÿ 159 009F   &lt;control&gt; [ANSI - Y diaeresis; MacRoman - u diaeresis] 
  160 00A0 &amp;nbsp; NO-BREAK SPACE 
¡ 161 00A1 &amp;iexcl; INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK 
¢ 162 00A2 &amp;cent; CENT SIGN 
£ 163 00A3 &amp;pound; POUND SIGN   [lira sign is &#8356; - &#8356;] 
¤ 164 00A4 &amp;curren; CURRENCY SIGN 
¥ 165 00A5 &amp;yen; YEN SIGN 
¦ 166 00A6 &amp;brvbar; BROKEN BAR 
§ 167 00A7 &amp;sect; SECTION SIGN 
¨ 168 00A8 &amp;uml; DIAERESIS 
© 169 00A9 &amp;copy; COPYRIGHT SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
ª 170 00AA &amp;ordf; FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR 
« 171 00AB &amp;laquo; LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 
¬ 172 00AC &amp;not; NOT SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
­ 173 00AD &amp;shy; SOFT HYPHEN 
® 174 00AE &amp;reg; REGISTERED SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
¯ 175 00AF &amp;macr; MACRON 
° 176 00B0 &amp;deg; DEGREE SIGN 
± 177 00B1 &amp;plusmn; PLUS-MINUS SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
² 178 00B2 &amp;sup2; SUPERSCRIPT TWO 
³ 179 00B3 &amp;sup3; SUPERSCRIPT THREE 
´ 180 00B4 &amp;acute; ACUTE ACCENT 
µ 181 00B5 &amp;micro; MICRO SIGN 
¶ 182 00B6 &amp;para; PILCROW SIGN 
· 183 00B7 &amp;middot; MIDDLE DOT 
¸ 184 00B8 &amp;cedil; CEDILLA 
¹ 185 00B9 &amp;sup1; SUPERSCRIPT ONE 
º 186 00BA &amp;ordm; MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR 
» 187 00BB &amp;raquo; RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK 
¼ 188 00BC &amp;frac14; VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER 
½ 189 00BD &amp;frac12; VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF 
¾ 190 00BE &amp;frac34; VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS 
¿ 191 00BF &amp;iquest; INVERTED QUESTION MARK 
À 192 00C0 &amp;Agrave; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 
Á 193 00C1 &amp;Aacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE 
Â 194 00C2 &amp;Acirc; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
Ã 195 00C3 &amp;Atilde; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE 
Ä 196 00C4 &amp;Auml; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS  
Å 197 00C5 &amp;Aring; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 
Æ 198 00C6 &amp;AElig; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE 
Ç 199 00C7 &amp;Ccedil; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 
È 200 00C8 &amp;Egrave; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 
É 201 00C9 &amp;Eacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 
Ê 202 00CA &amp;Ecirc; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
Ë 203 00CB &amp;Euml; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 
Ì 204 00CC &amp;Igrave; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 
Í 205 00CD &amp;Iacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 
Î 206 00CE &amp;Icirc; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
Ï 207 00CF &amp;Iuml; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 
Ð 208 00D0 &amp;ETH; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH 
Ñ 209 00D1 &amp;Ntilde; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE 
Ò 210 00D2 &amp;Ograve; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 
Ó 211 00D3 &amp;Oacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 
Ô 212 00D4 &amp;Ocirc; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
Õ 213 00D5 &amp;Otilde; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE 
Ö 214 00D6 &amp;Ouml; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 
× 215 00D7 &amp;times; MULTIPLICATION SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
Ø 216 00D8 &amp;Oslash; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE 
Ù 217 00D9 &amp;Ugrave; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 
Ú 218 00DA &amp;Uacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 
Û 219 00DB &amp;Ucirc; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
Ü 220 00DC &amp;Uuml; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 
Ý 221 00DD &amp;Yacute; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 
Þ 222 00DE &amp;THORN; LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN 
ß 223 00DF &amp;szlig; LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S 
à 224 00E0 &amp;agrave; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 
á 225 00E1 &amp;aacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE  
â 226 00E2 &amp;acirc; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
ã 227 00E3 &amp;atilde; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE 
ä 228 00E4 &amp;auml; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 
å 229 00E5 &amp;aring; LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 
æ 230 00E6 &amp;aelig; LATIN SMALL LETTER AE 
ç 231 00E7 &amp;ccedil; LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA 
è 232 00E8 &amp;egrave; LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE 
é 233 00E9 &amp;eacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE 
ê 234 00EA &amp;ecirc; LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
ë 235 00EB &amp;euml; LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS 
ì 236 00EC &amp;igrave; LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 
í 237 00ED &amp;iacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 
î 238 00EE &amp;icirc; LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
ï 239 00EF &amp;iuml; LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 
ð 240 00F0 &amp;eth; LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH 
ñ 241 00F1 &amp;ntilde; LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE 
ò 242 00F2 &amp;ograve; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE 
ó 243 00F3 &amp;oacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE 
ô 244 00F4 &amp;ocirc; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
õ 245 00F5 &amp;otilde; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE 
ö 246 00F6 &amp;ouml; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS 
÷ 247 00F7 &amp;divide; DIVISION SIGN   (present in Symbol font) 
ø 248 00F8 &amp;oslash; LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE 
ù 249 00F9 &amp;ugrave; LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE 
ú 250 00FA &amp;uacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE 
û 251 00FB &amp;ucirc; LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX 
ü 252 00FC &amp;uuml; LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS 
ý 253 00FD &amp;yacute; LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE 
þ 254 00FE &amp;thorn; LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN 
ÿ 255 00FF &amp;yuml; LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

Each of these characters have a binary value. 8-bit binary starts at 00000000 and ends with 11111111. There are 256 possible combinations of 1's and 0's in this format.
Here are some examples to give you an idea:

00000000 = 0
00000001 = 1
00000010 = 2
00000011 = 3
00000100 = 4
00000101 = 5
00000111 = 6
...
00100000 = 32 (which would be the 32nd character, a space)
...
01000001 = 65 (which would be the 65th character, the capital "A")

11111111 = 256 (which would be the 256th character, the LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS or "ÿ")

If you still don't understand, perhaps I'll write more later....[/quote:5aa44ac3be]
ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!