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Confusion with the concept of wc -c and wc -m

Is wc -c and wc -m same ?

Code:

Shellscript::cat file1 
hello
Shellscript::cat file1 | wc -c
6
Shellscript::cat file1 | wc -m
6
Shellscript::file file1
file1: ASCII text
Shellscript::uname -a
Linux was85host 2.6.27.45-0.1-vmi #1 SMP 2010-02-22 16:49:47 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Atleast for wc -m i was expecting the result to be 5 as it calculates the number of characters and not bytes.

wc -c shows 6. Is 1 character not 1 byte in Ascii system ?

Thanks,

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