Many of the extended characters in ISO 8859-\* can be implemented using pure ASC...

cryptonector 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: UTF-8 is a brilliant design

Many of the extended characters in ISO 8859-* can be implemented using pure ASCII with overstriking. ASCII was designed to support overstriking for this purpose. Overstriking was how one typed many of those characters on typewriters.