Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
- Subject: Re: "read from" and non-lo-ascii characters
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:48:32 -0700
On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
P.S.: Obligatory pedantry: there is no such thing as "high" or
"low" ASCII. ASCII defines interpretations for bytes in the range
0...0x7F. If it's not in that range, it's not ASCII.
PPS: Obligatory pedantry from a professional linguist: Language is
usage. The terms lo-ascii and hi-ascii were used consistently and
meaningfully throughout the 80s and 90s. Furthermore, you knew
*exactly* what my terminology meant, thus bearing witness against
yourself. The defense rests.
PPPS: I may be a descriptive grammarian at heart, but most words do
not have their meanings formally specified by a national standards
body. ASCII does. I may have known what you meant, but it's still
technically wrong. =) "Non-ASCII", however, would be correct.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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