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Re: [hybi] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 02 February 2010 13:58 UTC

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WeBMartians wrote:
> Curiosity: Why can't the document reference ISO-646US?
> ...

As far as I can tell, it could. When I checked the RFC collection, 
references to the ANSI spec seemed to be used more frequently.

Here's an excerpt from RFC 5198 which might be relevant:

    [ASCII]           American National Standards Institute (formerly
                      United States of America Standards Institute), "USA
                      Code for Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4-1968,
                      1968.

                      ANSI X3.4-1968 has been replaced by newer versions
                      with slight modifications, but the 1968 version
                      remains definitive for the Internet.  ISO 646
                      International Reverence Version (IRV)
                      [ISO.646.1991] is usually considered equivalent to
                      ASCII.

    [ISO.646.1991]    International Organization for Standardization,
                      "Information technology - ISO 7-bit coded character
                      set for information interchange", ISO Standard 646,
                      1991.

Best regards, Julian

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