Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

--On Monday, 22 January, 2007 08:48 +0000 "Clive D.W. Feather"
<clive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please remove the term "extended ASCII" from 1.1 - there is no
> such thing. If you want to talk about an 8 bit character set,
> then "the ISO 8859 family" would do.

FWIW, while I fixed this text, more or less as you suggested
(and it needed fixing), there actually was an ANSI Standard
"ASCII-8" for a while.  If I recall, it was ultimately withdrawn
in favor of ANSI/INCITS endorsement of ISO 8859-1, but "extended
ASCII" was actually well-defined.

     john