On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:05 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Callum Lerwick wrote : > > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:33 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > > > Nicolas Mailhot wrote : > > > > > > > Le mercredi 11 avril 2007 à 00:29 +0200, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > > > > > > > > US-ASCII is a meaningless term. There simply is no 8-bit ASCII > > > > > > > > Sure but ASCII is frequently abused nevertheless. And human lazyness > > > > will "help" people choose the abusive interpretation. > > > > > > How about referring to "plain ASCII" in the guideline? > > > > Why has no one mentioned the most obvious solution. Refer to it as > > "7-bit ASCII". It has the word "ASCII" in it for ease of understanding, > > and further stresses that we mean 7 bits, not 8. It may technically be > > redundant, but that's pretty much the point. > > In the very first reply to the thread, Nicolas suggested just that, and > it's what started the discussion :-) > > Nicolas : "Shouldn't this be clarified as 7-bit ASCII ?" > > Others : ASCII is necessarily 7-bit!! > > ... > > Which brought me to suggest "plain ASCII", as "plain" suggests "no > extensions", but doesn't go into any technical details, and it's a > terminology I'm quite sure I already came across a few times. As said before, just tell people to do "man ascii". There is all you need to understand which characters are in the ASCII set. Simo. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
