Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >  Even 8-bit ASCII is a correct term meaning ISO-8859-1.
> 
> I would question that.  Understandable, yes, but not really correct.

In the computer culture I grew up, 8-bit ASCII meant CP437. Every author
called the CP437 table that was available at the end of computer books the
ASCII table.

--roozbeh