On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, John C Klensin wrote:
While, as far as I know, "high ASCII" has never been a
standard term, "ASCII-8" and "8-Bit ASCII" definitely have
been. And both terms are still used informally, both inside
and outside the US, to refer to the Standardized form of
Latin-1, i.e., ISO 8859-1.
May be true, but the terms are dangerous, as in different
cults they mean different things. For example, for older PC &
MS-DOS hackers the 8-bit ASCII means CP437.
The _only_ thing I was trying to clarify was the apparent
assertion in Doug's note that ASCII-8 wasn't well defined in
some standard. It was and is. I wouldn't suggest using the
term either.