[whatwg] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Jan 30 01:02:35 PST 2010


On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, WeBMartians wrote:
>
> Hmmm... Maybe it would be better to say ISO-646US rather than ASCII. 
> There is a lot of impreciseness about the very low value characters 
> (less than 0x20 space) in the ASCII "specifications." The same can be 
> said about the higher end.

Where the interpretation was normative, I've used the term "ANSI_X3.4-1968 
(US-ASCII)" and referenced RFC1345.

Cheers,
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