Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Mon Sep 21 10:42:38 CDT 2015


Sean Leonard wrote:

> Additionally as Peter stated, an expression including "Basic Latin
> block" (e.g., characters beyond the Basic Latin block) could work.

I was thinking that something like "non–Basic-Latin Unicode" might be
useful. It avoids the confusion of referring to ASCII as a range of code
points instead of a separate encoding standard.

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