Re: gpic and 8-bit characters (was: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit)

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth G. Branden Robinson:
> > So because both being above ASCII (8 bit area),
>
> I'm going to stop you right there.  ASCII is not an 8-bit code.  It is a
> 7-bit code, per USAS (later ANSI) X3.4-1968 and ECMA-6.
>
> https://ia800800.us.archive.org/35/items/enf-ascii-1968-1970/Image070917151315.pdf
> https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-6_6th_edition_december_1991.pdf
>
> Anyone who speaks of code points above 0x7F as being "ASCII" literally
> does not know what they are talking about.

Branden, you misparsed.

The bytes are “being above ASCII ([i.e., they are in the] 8 bit 
area [instead of in the 7 bit area that is ASCII]).”