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by sph 1526 days ago
There is no such thing as extended ASCII, as the standard only specifies characters up to 0x7F. What comes after is implementation dependent, DOS/Windows had code pages, there's ISO standards, SHIFT-JIS, etc. none of which are compatible with each other.
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johnisgood 1526 days ago
Glad to hear that. In that case text console in OpenBSD is not ASCII since I can pretty much both type and see those characters, right?! I mean, why say that it is ASCII-only if extended ASCII does not exist, yet those characters are displayed properly?
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sph 1526 days ago
Probably it's defaulting to ISO-8859-1, which is a superset of ASCII for Western European languages.

I don't use OpenBSD.

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