[GuidelinesChange] UTF8 filenames

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:33 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote :
> 
> > Le mercredi 11 avril 2007 à 00:29 +0200, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> > 
> > > US-ASCII is a meaningless term. There simply is no 8-bit ASCII 
> > 
> > Sure but ASCII is frequently abused nevertheless. And human lazyness
> > will "help" people choose the abusive interpretation.
> 
> How about referring to "plain ASCII" in the guideline?

Why has no one mentioned the most obvious solution. Refer to it as
"7-bit ASCII". It has the word "ASCII" in it for ease of understanding,
and further stresses that we mean 7 bits, not 8. It may technically be
redundant, but that's pretty much the point.
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