Re: Latin 1 is NOT superset of ASCII

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 15:20:14 EDT
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@oclc.org>
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Subject: Re: Latin 1 is NOT superset of ASCII 
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In message <9406161452.aa11712@dali.scocan.sco.COM>, Murray Maloney writes:
>> I agree that HTML should be specified in terms of ISO character sets,
>> but we should include some informative language that explains what
>> those beasts are relative to US-ASCII.
>
>If you will stipulate to simple "ASCII", I'll agree and happily
>write the descriptive text that explains what ASCII, and I will
>also gladly provide the descriptive text for ISO 8859/1 and 
>the control characters.

"So let it be written. So let it be done."

Forget I ever said anything about US-ASCII.

Dan