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actually it's called UTF, which has surpassed ASCII. UTF can display all unicode characters (ASCII only has a set of 256 characters). The first 128 characters in ASCII and UTF are the same, for backwards-compatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
If you use Windows and can't remember a particular character, just go Start > Run > charmap
I remember back in the early days of AOL people thought this was the coolest shit ever. Some would scroll chat rooms with ☼ and ♣ symbols. Back when a punter wasn't just a guy on a football team.