Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters

Martin J. Dürst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Mon Sep 21 18:59:51 CDT 2015


Hello Doug,

On 2015/09/22 00:42, Doug Ewell wrote:

> I was thinking that something like "non–Basic-Latin Unicode" might be

Is that non-Basic Latin or not Basic-Latin?

> useful. It avoids the confusion of referring to ASCII as a range of code
> points instead of a separate encoding standard.

But as a three-component term with unclear structure, it's confusing by 
itself.

Regards,   Martin.


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