communication is successfully carried out using some sort of protocols, and the first and necessary objective of the protocol is to synchronize the receiver and the transmitter which is one bit long in rs232 standard, only then receiver of uart at PC can communicate. this whatever you want is possible but before you have to first study the rs232 standard protocol and then transmit you byte serially using other bit but i think it is best to use the built in UART of the microcontroller rather to use other port. The bits have no time gap between them and the bit width is what friend barry told, but
note that since the baud and bit in rs232 is same but not it is not the case in common, generally the baud have 1 or more bits in other communication standards and application.
now its upto you but my advice is to use the rs232