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by LukeShu 3478 days ago
As caf said, ASCII is a 7-bit encoding.

However, the question "which?" can still apply. There are many encodings that are a superset of ASCII. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, but so are ISO-8859-X (for any "X"), Windows-1252, and many others.

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Gah, yeah, you're right, I was thinking of CP-1252.

When I've had problems in the past with this it's been around windows machines, which love their own encoding formats.