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int_19h
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The government ate my name
In DOS days, codepage 437 was commonly referred to as "ASCII" colloquially in countries where some other encoding was in use for the national script.
umanwizard
3 months ago
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Interesting to know, thanks!
MisterTea
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Yup, what the GP said. It was a common mistake for people to assume ASCII included CP 437 characters back in the DOS days. Even I made that assumption when I was a kid.
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