The characters in the 128-255 range are referred to as extended ASCII.Ĭode page 865 is the code page used to write Nordic languages: Danish, and Norwegian.
It later was expanded to support 256 characters (8-bit code) in order to provide language specific characters, various symbols, as well as box-drawing characters: elements used for presentation purposes, allowing to draw different kind of frames and boxes. The first 32 characters are control characters (also called non-printable characters), which are used to control data streams as well as devices such as printers. The original character set, which is now referred as the standard character set was initially composed of 128 characters (7-bit code). American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) is a widely used character encoding system introduced in 1963.
