The term extended ASCII (or high ASCII) describes eight-bit or larger character encodings that include the standard seven-bit ASCII characters as well as others. The use of the term is sometimes criticized, because it can be mistakenly interpreted that the ASCII standard has been updated to include more than 128 characters or that the term unambiguously identifies a single encoding, both of which are untrue.
Read more about Extended ASCII: Motives For Extending, Proprietary Extensions, ISO 8859 and Proprietary Adaptions, Character Set Confusion, Multi Byte Character Sets, Usage in Computer Readable Languages
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