I agree, although I note that sometimes the additional (redundant) specificity of "non-7-bit-ASCII characters" is needed when talking to people unclear on what "ASCII" means.
Addison > -----Original Message----- > From: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > Constable > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 9:52 AM > To: Sean Leonard; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters > > You already have been using "non-ASCII Unicode", which is about as concise > and sufficiently accurate as you'll get. There's no term specifically defined > in > any standard or conventionally used for this. > > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean > Leonard > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 7:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters > > What is the most concise term for characters or code points outside of the > US-ASCII range (U+0000 - U+007F)? Sometimes I have referred to these as > "extended characters" or "non-ASCII Unicode" but I do not find those terms > precise. We are talking about the code points U+0080 - U+10FFFF. I suppose > that this also refers to code points/scalar values that are not formally > Unicode characters, such as U+FFFF. Basically, I am looking for a concise term > for values that would require multiple UTF-8 octets if encoded in UTF-8 > (without referring to UTF-8 encoding specifically). > "Non-ASCII" is not precise enough since character sets like Shift-JIS are non- > ASCII. > > Also a citation to a relevant standard (whether Unicode or otherwise) would > be helpful. > > The terms "supplementary character" and "supplementary code point" are > defined in the Unicode standard, referring to characters or code points > above U+FFFF. I am looking for something like those, but for characters or > code points above U+007F. > > Thank you, > > Sean
