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by speeder 4704 days ago
Or they account wrongly ;) (ie: from the wrong set)

I love how sometimes even on the same company, each place account ASCII differently.

I remember registering for a IM, and in one info screen my name was Maur&cio and in the site info screen Maur€cio and in the search screen was Maur£cio and so on...

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ASCII is Obviously meant to use CP437 for character codes 128-254, duh...

Seriously though, most other code pages are pretty transparent to/from unicode... IBM PC-DOS extended ascii (classic ANSI-BBS) isn't so transparent.