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by nomel 155 days ago
It would be interesting to see how things changed if you included extended ascii characters [1], which were widely used for ascii UI.

[1] https://www.lookuptables.com/text/extended-ascii-table

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I did actually try out various alphabets e.g. Cyrillic, Greek and symbols (e.g. box drawing symbols), but ended up removing them: https://github.com/alexharri/website/commit/d969ef839

Using only ASCII felt more in the "spirit" of the post and reduced scope (which is always good)