Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 29 January 2007 14:37 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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John C Klensin said:
>> Please remove the term "extended ASCII" from 1.1 - there is no
>> such thing. If you want to talk about an 8 bit character set,
>> then "the ISO 8859 family" would do.
> 
> FWIW, while I fixed this text, more or less as you suggested
> (and it needed fixing), there actually was an ANSI Standard
> "ASCII-8" for a while.  If I recall, it was ultimately withdrawn
> in favor of ANSI/INCITS endorsement of ISO 8859-1, but "extended
> ASCII" was actually well-defined.

Hmm, I live and learn.

Do you have a document number or something that I can investigate further?
A bit of googling suggests you are correct but doesn't tell me any more
than that.

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