writing ascii code at linux prompt

From: james (ad_at_ad.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:35:21 +0100

Am booting on a linux floppy (to reset win2000 passwords).
usernames contains characters from ascii 127-255.
anyone knows how to enter those characters?

thx

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