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   <H1>[whatwg] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol</H1>
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<PRE>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 &quot;specifications.&quot; The same can be 
said about the higher end.
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Ian Hickson wrote:
&gt;<i> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Yuzo Fujishima wrote:
</I>&gt;<i>   
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I see both &quot;US-ASCII&quot; and &quot;ASCII&quot; are used in: 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-54">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-54</A>
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> If they mean the same thing, one should be used consistently.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> In the document, US-ASCII seems to mean encoding while ASCII mean 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> charset. Is this common? (I guess US-ASCII is commonly considered as an 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> alias for ASCII. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Aliases">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Aliases</A> )
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>     
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I've changed the spec to use &quot;ASCII&quot; consistently.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Cheers,
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