diff --git a/source/basic.tex b/source/basic.tex
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--- a/source/basic.tex
+++ b/source/basic.tex
@@ -3368,11 +3368,10 @@
 UTF-8 encoding form
 and is composed of a contiguous sequence of
 bits,
-\begin{footnote}
-The number of bits in a byte is reported by the macro
-\tcode{CHAR_BIT} in the header \libheaderref{climits}.
-\end{footnote}
 the number of which is \impldef{bits in a byte}.
+\begin{note}
+See the macro \libmacro{CHAR_BIT} in the header \libheaderref{climits}.
+\end{note}
 The memory available to a \Cpp{} program consists of one or more sequences of
 contiguous bytes.
 Every byte has a unique address.