> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:04 PM
> Mike Ayers wrote:
> > As above, my bad. I meant that it is fully
> coimpatible with "8
> > bit ASCII", 8 bit code in which the lower 128 code points are as
> > defined in ASCII, and the upper 128 code points are treated
> opaquely.
>
> Probably as bad as well: ASCII (more exactly the US version
> of the ISO 646
> standard) is a 7-bit charset, and says nothing about possible
> upper bits...
"Says nothing" == "permits". Is my IETF background showing? In any case, 8-bit ASCII is not a standard, but an easily grasped metastandard which describes a large number of character sets, as I described above. UTF-8 is one of those character sets.
/|/|ike
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