I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

Strings and Values Typically, when assigning a value to a word, the easiest (and most limiting) technique to to take the ASCII value of each letter in a word and calculate all of them together.

Variations on ASCII, such as ISO-8859-x (with a number of values for "x"), solved the problem to a limited degree, but there were numerous issues with that system.