> [!tldr] A .txt file is the same number of bytes long as it is characters long (usually) If you open Microsoft Word and write "hi", then hit "Save", the file is going to be kilobytes large. If you open a text editor and write "hi", then hit "Save", the file will be 2 bytes long. One for the "h" (01101000) and one for the "i" (01101001). This is true for any characters in the [[Character Encoding|ASCII]] set. Once you go into higher-levels of [[Character Encoding|Unicode]] [[Character Encoding]] there are some individual characters that take multiple bytes to store, if you want an example: deal with it 😎. **** # More ## Source - self