Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 06/03/07 11:04

Dan wrote:
>
> 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.
>

that is all true, but as you correctly mentioned the term is in use and
there are various references to it (even from IBM in their manuals for
Lotus Notes, printers or PC DOS
(http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/gg244459.pdf for example)).
The term is in use, and can be used even if it's not precise (it's
similar to the use of the word 'Homepage' in German in order to refer to
an entire Website; not accurate, but it's in use :-). Therefore I
wouldn't blame the authors of the website we are discussing for
providing unreliable facts...

Cheers
Bernhard



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