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- From: Toby Speight <tms@ansa.co.uk>
- To: "XML developers' list" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Aug 1998 13:55:26 +0100
Steven> Steven Champeon <URL:mailto:schampeo@hesketh.com>
0> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980808185200.13751E-100000@wasabi>,
0> Steven wrote:
Steven> I mean, %$#!@, most of the suits I've worked for didn't
Steven> know what 8-bit ASCII was, ...
Well, I'm sure there would be plenty here who'd like to know. ASCII
is a 7-bit character coding scheme - nothing more, nothing less. The
term "8-bit ASCII" could be used to refer to any of a number of 8-bit
codes which coincide with ASCII for values under 128: ISO-8859-1,
ISO-8859-2, ..., ISO-8859-9, ISO-2022-JP (I think), the Windows and
Macintosh character sets, and others.
[BTW, when using US-ASCII as an entity character encoding, must one
declare it as UTF-8, and use other means to ensure that multi-byte
characters don't occur?]
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