I'm guessing you're just not old enough to have heard anyone refer to extended ascii? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

I'm guessing you're just not old enough to have heard anyone refer to extended ascii? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII If you used Macs in the 80s and 90s and shared files with PC users, you heard about it all the time, because high-ascii characters would map incorrectly across the platforms.