Subject: Re: [EAI] Consensus Issue #4: new reference and term for "ASCII", "non-ASCII", "UTF-8"?

From: Shawn Steele <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:42:39 +0000

>> Issue #4: new reference and term for "ASCII", "non-ASCII", "UTF-8"?

>> Should the WG replace references to "ASCII", "non-ASCII", and "UTF-8"  
>> with new or different term s that precisely and accurately identify what  
>> is intended?

> Yes.
 
> I have offered "UTF8-proper" as a possible term.

FWIW: That's pretty unclear to me.  I really think that there is no ready-made term, particularly for non-ASCII, so whatever is used will need to be clearly defined in the document.