In article <004101c802c8$34fd7640$654d410a@aldebaran> you write:
>I don't see what "UTF-8 character" could mean other than a "(Unicode)
>character encoded in UTF-8".
It can also mean a character in the UTF-8 repertoire. Hoever, the
UTF-8 repertoire is the same as that of Unicode, so it may well be
that people will usually use "Unicode character" for that meaning and
reserve the "UTF-8 character" for "character encoded in UTF-8".
That doesn't apply to ASCII - it's not just an encoding of some other
character set - and I would guess that "ASCII character" more often
means one in the ASCII repertoire.
There is not a universally agreed precise terminology for these
things. But using cumbersome phrases to try and achieve precision in
a document for beginners (which is what I take it we were discussing)
is likely to instead just be confusing.
-- Richard
--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
