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

John Delacour skribis 2007-10-18 20:24 (+0100):
> >They are "characters outside the latin-1 range".
> Latin-1 has nothing to do with it.

Blocks of characters have names in Unicode. One of those names is
"Latin-1 Supplement".

It has a lot to do with it.

However, I was mistaken: "latin-1" in Unicode is U+0080..U+00FF,
thus excluding ASCII part, which is called "Basic Latin" in Unicode.

> 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

The latin-1 here is not an alias for iso-8859-1, though I do wish to
point out that iso-8859-1 was redefined as a Unicode encoding in 1997.
That is, byte 0x80 is defined as the Unicode character U+0080.
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