On Apr 23, 2007, at 15:41 UTC, Norman Palardy wrote: > 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
I've found that it usually indicates confusion on the part of the speaker. Something like when you see somebody refer to a MAC, you know they're a PC user who doesn't know the first thing about Macs. :) The proper term for those characters is non-ASCII, since they are not, in fact, ASCII. Understanding this fact first is the basis for understanding text encodings in general. People who refer to "high ASCII" usually are under the mistaken belief that there is a single official 256-character version of ASCII, and then don't understand why a code point in this mythical character set doesn't always generate the same character. Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
