How are text files different from binary files?

or:How are text files different from binary files?or:A bit can be on or off, so it has two values, 1 or 0. A character, also called a byte, is 8 bits

or:How are text files different from binary files?

or:A bit can be on or off, so it has two values, 1 or 0. A character, also called a byte, is 8 bits so it can have 256 values. Everything the computer does is done with bytes. A text file is defined by the ASCII standard (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), and that defines only 7 bits, 128 values. The other 128 possible values are called \"high bit\" and maybe a program can handle them and maybe not. But the high bit characters are not used in a text file.

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