Quote/Cytat - David Starner <[email protected]> (wto, 29 paź 2013,
07:51:59):
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.
Years ago on this very list there was already a similar thread. If I
remeber well, the author or co-author of the US standard more or less
equivalent to ISO Latin-1 has said that the draft of the standard had
title "8-bit ASCII".
Regards
JSB
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Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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