Just to nitpick a bit: ASCII does not have 256 characters but only 128 and UTF-8 has one to four byte sequences, so three byte sequences are part of the game.
Pity that URLs are not allowed on this site, I would point you directly to wikipedia.
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It depends on the encoding. UTF-8 uses 8, 16 or 32 bits per unicode character, depending on the character's identifier.
- Miguel Oliveira October 07, 2013There are other possible encodings. I suggest you check Wikipedia.