Posted by Dan on 06/01/07 16:22

On Jun 1, 10:32 am, Bernhard Sturm <sturmnixs...@datacomm.ch> wrote:
> do I understand you correctly, that you are telling us that mentioning
> the term 'extended ASCII' is just plain wrong, and it doesn't exist at all?
> If that is the case then could you please ask for the deletion of this
> Wikipedia entry:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

There, Wikipedia is being descriptivist rather than prescriptivist,
and noting terminology that can be found in use, without necessarily
implying that it's actually "correct" by any logical standard. It
goes on to note that the usage is criticized, and that it's been used
in a fairly sloppy manner to refer to a whole range of different sets
of characters that go beyond those defined in ASCII, and is thus not a
specific character set / encoding, nor is it endorsed in any way in
conjunction with the ASCII standard.

--
Dan

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