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by userbinator 2387 days ago
If you extend ASCII to CP1252, which is the most common encoding besides/before UTF-8 became common, then you do get those accented characters (and that's likely responsible for the popularity of '1252.)

In fact, the first 256 characters of Unicode are almost identical to CP1252. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.
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pdonis 2387 days ago
> the first 256 characters of Unicode are almost identical to CP1252. I'm pretty sure that's not a coincidence.

That depends on whether you consider the fact that Windows CP 1252 is almost identical to Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1), which is exactly the first 256 characters of Unicode, to be a coincidence.

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throw0101a 2386 days ago
> This character encoding is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters, but differs from the IANA's ISO-8859-1 by using displayable characters rather than control characters in the 80 to 9F (hex) range.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

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