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		Rizz 4 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 4 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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