Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area),
I'm going to stop you right there. ASCII is not an 8-bit code. It is a
7-bit code, per USAS (later ANSI) X3.4-1968 and ECMA-6.
https://ia800800.us.archive.org/35/items/enf-ascii-1968-1970/Image070917151315.pdf
https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-6_6th_edition_december_1991.pdf
Anyone who speaks of code points above 0x7F as being "ASCII" literally
does not know what they are talking about.
Branden, you misparsed.
The bytes are “being above ASCII ([i.e., they are in the] 8 bit
area [instead of in the 7 bit area that is ASCII]).”
