2013-10-29 9:31, Janusz S. Bien wrote:
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".
It was in 2001, and the discussion can still be found via general search
engines. The initial message was
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML025/1021.html
and there Edwin F. Hart, former Chairman of US L2 Committee for Codes
and Character Sets, wrote:
“When the US adopted ISO 8859-1 as a US standard (ANSI/ISO 8859-1), as
editor I asked ANSI to add "(8-bit ASCII)" to the end of the title.”
However, as the thread shows, the proposal was rejected. The only
standard that has “ASCII” in its name is *the* ASCII standard.
Yucca
