[GuidelinesChange] UTF8 filenames

[Matthias Saou]

Callum Lerwick wrote :

> 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.

In the very first reply to the thread, Nicolas suggested just that, and
it's what started the discussion :-)

Nicolas : "Shouldn't this be clarified as 7-bit ASCII ?"

Others : ASCII is necessarily 7-bit!!

...

Which brought me to suggest "plain ASCII", as "plain" suggests "no
extensions", but doesn't go into any technical details, and it's a
terminology I'm quite sure I already came across a few times.

Matthias

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