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“ CP850 differs from CP437 in that many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters, and various symbols were replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving support for Western European languages […] At the same time, the changes frequently caused display glitches in programs that actually made use of the box drawing characters to display a GUI-like surface in text mode, such as the ubiquitous Turbo Pascal. [Except that for me it was Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, and yeah: I confess that back then, for some time I thought that those esoteric symbols should have had some sound significance I just couldn’t grasp… until I realized it was just a royal encoding pita!]
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