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In article <004101c802c8$34fd7640$654d410a@aldebaran> you write: >I don't see what "UTF-8 character" could mean other than a "(Unicode) >character encoded in UTF-8". It can also mean a character in the UTF-8 repertoire. Hoever, the UTF-8 repertoire is the same as that of Unicode, so it may well be that people will usually use "Unicode character" for that meaning and reserve the "UTF-8 character" for "character encoded in UTF-8". That doesn't apply to ASCII - it's not just an encoding of some other character set - and I would guess that "ASCII character" more often means one in the ASCII repertoire. There is not a universally agreed precise terminology for these things. But using cumbersome phrases to try and achieve precision in a document for beginners (which is what I take it we were discussing) is likely to instead just be confusing. -- Richard -- "Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
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