RE: [gnso-idn-wg] Asciish

["olof nordling" <olof.nordling@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cary and all,
According to Wikipedia (perhaps not a "linguistic source", but anyway) it is 
indeed neither: " ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), 
generally pronounced [ËÃski], is a character encoding based on the English 
alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, 
and other devices that work with text."
More on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii and 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_%28disambiguation%29  
Best regards
Olof

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-idn-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-idn-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Cary Karp
Sent: den 19 mars 2007 20:04
To: gnso-idn-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-idn-wg] Asciish

Quoting Tin Wee:

> ... no IDN string in a given language should be assumed to have any
> meaning or other connection with another string in another language,
> ASCII included.

The w.g. discussion has been peppered with references to ASCII as both
a language and a script. I have always been of the belief that it
is neither. Can someone please provide a few references to linguistic
sources that provide warrant for this usage.

/Cary