Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com>: > To break it down, Stephen was making the observation that people call > all sorts of extended ASCII encodings (including proprietary things) > "ASCII". So I took it to the extreme and called something that had > nothing to do with ASCII a type of ASCII.
ASCII has taken new meanings. For most coders, in relaxed style, it refers to any byte-oriented character encoding scheme. In C terms, ASCII == char * Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list