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by masklinn 4704 days ago
There are a number of different "extended set" (IBM code pages and ISO/IEC 8859 parts for instance), and they're "extended" because they're not ASCII but supersets of it (as is UTF-8).

ASCII is the 7-bit encoding ANSI_X3.4-1968, composed of 95 printable and 33 control characters.