RE: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters

I agree, although I note that sometimes the additional (redundant) specificity of "non-7-bit-ASCII characters" is needed when talking to people unclear on what "ASCII" means.

Addison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Constable
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:52 AM
> To: Sean Leonard; unicode_at_unicode.org
> Subject: RE: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters
>
> You already have been using "non-ASCII Unicode", which is about as concise
> and sufficiently accurate as you'll get. There's no term specifically defined in
> any standard or conventionally used for this.
>
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] On Behalf Of Sean
> Leonard
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 7:48 AM
> To: unicode_at_unicode.org
> Subject: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters
>
> What is the most concise term for characters or code points outside of the
> US-ASCII range (U+0000 - U+007F)? Sometimes I have referred to these as
> "extended characters" or "non-ASCII Unicode" but I do not find those terms
> precise. We are talking about the code points U+0080 - U+10FFFF. I suppose
> that this also refers to code points/scalar values that are not formally
> Unicode characters, such as U+FFFF. Basically, I am looking for a concise term
> for values that would require multiple UTF-8 octets if encoded in UTF-8
> (without referring to UTF-8 encoding specifically).
> "Non-ASCII" is not precise enough since character sets like Shift-JIS are non-
> ASCII.
>
> Also a citation to a relevant standard (whether Unicode or otherwise) would
> be helpful.
>
> The terms "supplementary character" and "supplementary code point" are
> defined in the Unicode standard, referring to characters or code points
> above U+FFFF. I am looking for something like those, but for characters or
> code points above U+007F.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sean
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