UTF8 Byte Size for ASCII Characters

In a UTF8 database, are ASCII characters stored as a single byte, therefore using the minimum amount of db space possible? Or are they stored at a fixed amount of 2 or 3 bytes, wasting db space unnecessarily?

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The Ascii characters are single bytes. So don't worry about space.

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