The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code set ...

Several of my passwords have extended ASCII characters in them (like Æ or µ). In Windows I typed them by holding ALT and keying in the 3 number code (ALT+198). But I'm diving into Ubuntu and ...

I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

The numerical value, or order, of an ASCII character. There are 128 standard ASCII characters, numbered from 0 to 127. Extended ASCII adds another 128 values and goes to 255. The numbers are typically ...