Exended ASCII and code pages [was Re: for / while else doesn't make sense]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com>:

> To break it down, Stephen was making the observation that people call
> all sorts of extended ASCII encodings (including proprietary things)
> "ASCII". So I took it to the extreme and called something that had
> nothing to do with ASCII a type of ASCII.

ASCII has taken new meanings. For most coders, in relaxed style, it
refers to any byte-oriented character encoding scheme. In C terms,

    ASCII == char *


Marko