Dave Crocker writes: > 30 years of consistent use tends to carry more weight than a single > person's recent desire to impose linguistic changes.
You are making a fool of yourself, Dave. As you can easily see from a web search, people consistently and correctly refer to 8859-1, KOI-8, UTF-8, etc. as being ASCII-compatible. This includes the authors of RFC 2376, RFC 2445, RFC 3023, the Linux UTF-8 manual page, etc. Meanwhile, people consistently and correctly refer to Baudot, for example, as being incompatible with ASCII, even though Baudot fits inside 7 bits with room to spare. The use of ``ASCII'' to mean ``7-bit'' is a silly mistake in some recent IETF documents: specifically, RFC 2130 and this group's ``ACE'' garbage. Now that the error has been pointed out, it can easily be fixed. ---Dan
