On 23-Apr-07, at 7:07 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 22 avr. 07 à 16:06 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit:
>
>> On Apr 21, 2007, at 22:13 UTC, TJ Hanson, PhD wrote:
>>
>>> Solved. The Mac ASCII decimal value for a degree symbol is 161.
>>
>> That's not an ASCII value; ASCII values range from 0-127 only.
>
> I think we should forget about the ASCII term.
> They are only a subset of characters, only useable in english  
> languages.

ASCII is a perfectly valid term
The confusion is "all those characters above 127" and how to refer to  
them

But if people say "high ascii" pretty much every knows what is meant
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