Re: IDN's with any ASCII character

--On Wednesday, 14 May, 2003 19:26 +0430 Roozbeh Pournader 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>> While, as far as I know, "high ASCII" has never been a
>> standard term, "ASCII-8" and "8-Bit ASCII" definitely have
>> been.  And both terms are still used informally, both inside
>> and outside the US, to refer to the Standardized form of
>> Latin-1, i.e., ISO 8859-1.
>
> May be true, but the terms are dangerous, as in different
> cults they mean different things. For example, for older PC &
> MS-DOS hackers the 8-bit ASCII means CP437.

The _only_ thing I was trying to clarify was the apparent 
assertion in Doug's note that ASCII-8 wasn't well defined in 
some standard.  It was and is.  I wouldn't suggest using the 
term either.

      john

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> roozbeh
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