Two reasons:
1. By specifying an 8-bit ASCII standard, the US then invalidated any
vendor/proprietary code being called "8-bit ASCII".
2. It also distinguished between the 7-bit X3.4-1986 ASCII and an 8-bit
extension.
Ed Hart
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-----Original Message-----
From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl [mailto:jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 01:27
To: Unicode List
Cc: Unicode List
Subject: Re: 8-bit ASCII (was: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit)
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 J%ORG KNAPPEN <KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE> wrote:
[...]
> A little out of date, but describing correctly the state of art in 1991
> before the merger. Even 8-bit ASCII is a correct term meaning ISO-8859-1.
What were/are the reasons to refer to ISO 8859-1 as 8-bit ASCII?
Best regards
Janusz S. Bień
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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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