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

Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> 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".

Latin-1 has nothing to do with it.  There are countless legacy character
sets that use the code points from 32 to 255, and besides, what
maquerades as Latin-1 in various environments rarely is strict iso-8859-1
> 
>> How about "extended characters"???
> 
> Bad name, because it would suggest an actual barrier, which in unicode
> isn't there.

Bad name also because the legacy character sets are often referred to as
extensions to ASCII up to 255 or below.

Above that they are multi-byte characters, but that doesn't mean they're 
necessarily Unicode, since the CJK legacy character sets are also 
multi-byte.

JD