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That's "Extended ASCII", basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?
And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They're just virtual these days.
No, I'm pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It's also missing Latin characters like Æ. It's a very weird standard.