ASCII codes differ, how to change?

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when alt<189> is pressed, the cent sign appears, i
expected a corner of a box drawing, i have two computers
side by side running same OS, one reutrns box drawing and
the other a cent sign, this goes for several ASCII codes,
i cant figure out how to solve this problem,
 
Sam said:
when alt<189> is pressed, the cent sign appears, i
expected a corner of a box drawing, i have two computers
side by side running same OS, one reutrns box drawing and
the other a cent sign, this goes for several ASCII codes,
i cant figure out how to solve this problem,
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Strictly speaking, the ASCII character set only includes values up to 127
decimal (7F hex). However, when the IBM PC was developed, the video card
contained one byte for each character in the 80x25 character display.
Gee...what to do with that extra bit per character? Why not invent 128 new
characters, for line-drawing and special symbols? The result, of course, was
the extended ASCII character set for the IBM PC. The chart below shows (most
of) the characters that can be generated by the display in the original IBM
PC.

Microsoft Windows ® has a different notion about what the high-order (upper
128) characters are.
 
Alright then why do two computers with the same OS (win XP)
return different characters for the same ASCII value, and
can i change it so they're both the same?
 
when alt<189> is pressed, the cent sign appears, i
expected a corner of a box drawing, i have two computers
side by side running same OS, one reutrns box drawing and
the other a cent sign, this goes for several ASCII codes,
i cant figure out how to solve this problem,
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What is the default font? Open Character Map. Select the font that you are
working with from the drop down list. Check that Alt+189 maps to the
desired result.
 
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