On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:47:54 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>ASCII is 7 bits and does not include any of ō, ŏ, ő, ò, ó, ô, õ or ö, but many 
>PC and z/OS code pages do, including EBCDIC code pages. See 
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_code_pages and the articles for specific 
>code pages linked to from there.
>
I accept that you're a pedant on this matter.  But what convenient term do
you prefer for those code pages that are (roughly) supersets of ASCII, such
as ISO8859-xx?  Perhaps ISO-Latin?  Otherwise?
    https://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/ml-docs/iso-8859.html

-- gil

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