On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Mark Davis ☕ <[email protected]> wrote: > Normally the term ASCII just refers to the 7-bit form. What is sometimes > called "8-bit ASCII" is the same as ISO Latin 1. If you want to be > completely clear, you can say "7-bit ASCII".
One of the first hits for "8-bit ASCII" on Google Books is "When the Mac came out. it supported 8-bit ASCII.", courtesy of "Introduction to Digital Publishing", by David Bergsland. (He also seems to be under the delusion that MS-DOS used 7-bit ASCII.) I don't think you can assume anything about 8-bit ASCII besides the lower bits (hopefully) begin compatible with ASCII. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
