revision of ISO 3166

[Doug Ewell]

<tmilo at chello dot nl> wrote:

> > >Fair enough.  But there really needs to be an agreed-upon name for
the
> > >set of 26 letters from U+0041 through U+005A (plus lowercase
> > >counterparts), which is so commonly encountered in computer
> > >applications.
>
> ASCII

Nope, ASCII includes 43 other graphic characters and 33 control
characters which are not valid in, for example, ISO 3166 country codes.

"The ASCII letters" is more what I had in mind.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/