Exactly. I think the reason that non-ASCII feels non-concise is that there is widespread confusion between ASCII and Latin-1/ISO 8859-1 (which in turn is widely confused with Windows-1252).
-steve Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 20, 2015, at 10:05 AM, Phillips, Addison <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
