Re: good name for characters matching [^\0-\377]?

E R skribis 2007-10-18  9:50 (-0500):
> I'm preparing a presentation about Perl and Unicode support, and I'd
> like to give a name for characters with ordinals above 255. Is there a
> good name for that class?

They are "characters outside the latin-1 range".

> How about "extended characters"???

Bad name, because it would suggest an actual barrier, which in unicode
isn't there.
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