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Re: RFC 1342 bugs & suggested fixes

1993-02-24 14:43:39
Do we want to say US-ASCII and not ASCII here?

Is there some subtle issue here?  ANSI X3.4 says the character set's
name is "ASCII" (at least as of the copy I read) even though that is
no longer an acronym for the long version of the name.  My impression
is that the "US" is a historical relic.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          
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