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Re: Spelling "ASCII" in ECMA or ISO

1991-04-20 22:16:45
Well, we seem to have come back around full circle.

I hope that what we define the default identifier to be, for what we
all know and love as RFC822 ASCII, will be totally unambiguous to the
casual user.

With 8859-1 coming to be commonly known as 8-bit ASCII, I would hope
that we make sure that casual users do not think that ASCII means
8-bit ASCII!

So, I think we are back to USACII, or maybe RFC-XXXX-ASCII, just to be
really clear about exactly what the default really is, and then define
it with tablesincluded in an RFC-XXXX ANNEX to support resolution of
bar bets and other pointless arguments about what it is supposed to
mean.

Best...\Stef

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