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Rizz 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text...

But the past didn't use ASCII as such, but extended character sets, or multiple characters sets, which did allow for Russian, German, etc. text interfaces.

FarmerPotato 10 months ago [–]

There is history frozen into printer manuals. One solution was control codes like DC1 to bank-switch the appearance of a block such as ASCII 128-159.

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