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Would you like signs with those chars?

Would you like signs with those chars?

Posted Oct 25, 2022 13:15 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by geert
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?

8-bit character sets were not that new, although I agree they mostly post-date C. The Commodore micros since the 1970's used "PETSCII" with graphics characters in the upper half, and the IBM PC has since 1981 had its own character set with ASCII in the lower half, and a mixture of graphics and accented letters in upper (selection depending on the region).


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Would you like signs with those chars?

Posted Oct 25, 2022 19:58 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> 8-bit character sets were not that new, although I agree they mostly post-date C.

Note that bunch of these was in wide use way before C was a thing.


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