--On Wednesday, 02 February, 2005 14:19 -0500 Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> wrote:
...
Q: Why is the reference to "ASCII" given as the 1968 version
rather than ANSI INCITS 4-1986 (R2002)? [N.B. no typos,
the dates really are 1968 and 1986]
...
Because some incompatible changes were made in the ASCII
definition in the early 70s that would have fouled up the
"network virtual terminal" character set. You will find that
X3.4-1968 is referenced in most Internet applications protocols
that require an ASCII reference, include those for telnet, ftp,
and the email base protocols as well as the DNS ones.
john
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