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Re: [idn] 7CE
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] 7CE
- From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Date: 4 Oct 2001 16:58:02 -0000
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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