Re: ASCII as a subset of Unicode (was: Re: Oxford proposes a leaner alphabet)

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sat Apr 11 2009 - 13:59:57 CDT

  • Next message: Doug Ewell: "Re: ASCII as a subset of Unicode (was: Re: Oxford proposes a leaner alphabet)"

    On 11 Apr 2009, at 19:50, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > The set of ASCII characters is a proper and intact subset of the set
    > of Unicode characters.

    Is this really true?

    I though ASCII defined its characters as bytes, whereas Unicode uses
    code-points which when mapped using UTF-8 will contain the ASCII as a
    subset.

       Hans

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