On 23-Apr-07, at 10:52 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 23 avr. 07 à 18:43 Soir, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit:
>
>> No, legacy encodings were defined all over the world.  Unicode was
>> defined by an international consortium.
>
> Thank you.
> I wonder, then, why those encodings also include the ASCII part.
> Should not the ASCII be an independent encoding?

The 8th bit started being used and that meant that ACSII (the first 7  
bit portion) was the same but everything that had the 8th bit set was  
a new twist on ASCII making a new encoding.

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