title: Do certain characters take more bytes than others?
body: <p>I'm not very experienced with lower level things such as howmany bytes a character is. I tried finding out if one character equals one byte, but without success.</p>
  
  <p>I need to set a delimiter used for socket connections between a server and clients. This delimiter has to be as small (in bytes) as possible, to minimize bandwidth.</p>
  
  <p>The current delimiter is "#". Would getting an other delimiter decrease my bandwidth?</p>