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The name wouldn't be very appropriate, then.



Well, not exactly. For example box drawing characters are included in some extended ASCII tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters#DOS

I don't think it won't fit the name at all as an extra feature (though it only makes sense to use Unicode for that purpose).


"Extended ASCII" is not ASCII.

It's a dated phrase referring to various one-byte-per-character encodings that include ASCII as a subset. Now that UTF-8 exists and is widely used, those encodings are useless until you decode them into Unicode anyway.


So what? It's still called extended ASCII. The point is, using Unicode box drawing characters on that site would be appropriate.




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