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1.5 Definitions
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The following terms are used in this Policy Manual:

ASCII

     The character encoding specified by ANSI X3.4-1986 and its
     predecessor standards, referred to in MIME as US-ASCII, and
     corresponding to an encoding in eight bits per character of the
     first 128 Unicode(1) characters, with the eighth bit always zero.

UTF-8

     The transformation format (sometimes called encoding) of Unicode(2)
     defined by RFC 3629(3).  UTF-8 has the useful property of having
     ASCII as a subset, so any text encoded in ASCII is trivially also
     valid UTF-8.

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   (1) http://www.unicode.org/

   (2) http://www.unicode.org/

   (3) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt