RE: [xml-dev] [Summary] UTF-8 Question: e with acute accent should require two bytes, right?

> I read "ASCII character" in a similar way as I read "TCP/IP 
> packet" or "SOAP envelope" or "HTTP header".  Perhaps other 
> people read it differently.


No, I read it the same.

I think that an ASCII character is a Unicode character in the same way that
an XML document is an SGML document. One thing can conform to more than one
description.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/