Is ASCII passe?

I tried to run a web page with the content type meta tag of :

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ASCII">

and the validator said:

Sorry! A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character
encoding of the document. Either we do not support this character
encoding yet, or you have specified
a non-existent character encoding (often a misspelling).

The detected character encoding was "ascii".

The error was "".

If you believe the character encoding to be valid you can submit a
request for that character encoding (see the feedback page for details)
and we will look into supporting it in the
future.


Is ASCII now considered passe?  I spent a good chunk of life memorizing
ASCII codes....


Many thanks,


Jeff


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Jeff Silverman, sysadmin for the Research Computing Systems (RCS)
University of Washington, School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Dept.
Box 352500, Seattle, WA, 98125-2500 FAX: (206) 221-5264 Phone (206) 221-5394
jeffs@rcs.ee.washington.edu     http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/~jeffs

Received on Thursday, 28 March 2002 13:59:28 UTC