Current Desktop capabilities - take 3.

[Sean Middleditch]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:05, Dave Cridland [Home] wrote:
> On Thu Jun  3 19:15:00 2004, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 13:40, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 
> > > 	Comments welcome, [ particulary the button descriptions - I'm
> > > eager not to include 'gnome' or 'kde' in that string; is 'inset' 
> > and
> > > 'corner' adequate ? ]
> > 
> > "Element names must contain only lower-case alpha/numeric characters
> > using the ASCII."
> > 
> > Yet several of the examples also include dashes.  Also, is that 
> > 7-bit
> > ASCII, or does it include the extended 8-bit ASCII accented 
> > alphabetic
> > characters?
> > 
> > 
> You're right that it needs clarification, but ASCII is always 7-bit.
> 
> Anything 8-bit is some other charset - many of which (such as 
> ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) have all octet values <0x80 identical to ASCII.

Unfortunately, thanks to certain vendors, it's important to specify. 
There are a lot of "ASCII" specifications that include 8-bit
extensions.  Or at least provide a link to a correct ASCII specification
document.
-- 
Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.