----- Original Message ----- From: "Arcane Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:17 AM
Subject: RE: US-ASCII (was: Re: Invalid UTF-8 sequences)
Yes, of course it was a joke. Rest assured, if I perceive any kind of bias in Unicode, I shall say so directly and unambiguously. From my perspective (which is /itself/ biased by my cultural upbringing) I perceive no bias, so let's just drop that.
What I /intended/ to try to convey was the feeling that, to my British ears, the habit of referring to ASCII as "US-ASCII" sounds ridiculous, in exactly the same way that referring to Unicode as "US-Unicode" would sound ridiculous. So it was actually more like an analogy than a joke. If any criticism was present, it referred to the redundant "US-" prefix in "US-ASCII", not to Unicode, and even that wasn't really criticism, just my lack of understanding /why/.
Hope that's now clear. Jill
