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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 02 February 2010 07:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol
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Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
>> RFC 1345 is a non-maintained, historic informational RFC that's nit 
>> really a good definition for ASCII. If you disagree, please name a 
>> single RFC that has been published in the last 20 years that uses RFC 
>> 1345 to reference ASCII (I just searched, and couldn't find any).
> 
> I used "ANSI_X3.4-1968" because that's the canonical name for US-ASCII, 
> and I used RFC1345 because that's the canonical reference. If you disagree 
> with these choices, please update the IANA registry.
> ...

The issue with the registry is orthogonal.

Anyway, this will come up again if this becomes a Working Group document.

Best regards, Julian

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