alt Hacker NewsMany 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.
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.