[wsrp] [errata #9] Why in ASCII?

Comment: 

9. 4/24/03 (William Cox) 

Section 5.1.4: "We STRONGLY RECOMMEND
these characters be chosen from the first 127 characters of the Unicode
character set, so that the length is no longer than 4096 characters regardless
of whether it is represented in Unicode, ASCII or a byte[]."

This sentence has several problems.  (1)
the length of a 4096 character string, wchar or not, is always 4096 characters.
What you mean is 'length is no longer than 4096 bytes.'  (2) byte[]
should be written 'byte array'.  So, rewritten, it should read

"We STRONGLY RECOMMEND these characters
be chosen from the first 127 characters of the Unicode character set, so
that the space consumed is no greater than 4096 bytes regardless of whether
it is represented in Unicode, ASCII or a byte array."

Document: Spec 

Section: 5.1.4

Old Text: We STRONGLY RECOMMEND these
characters be chosen from the first 127 characters of the Unicode character
set, so that the length is no longer than 4096 characters regardless of
whether it is represented in Unicode, ASCII or a byte[].

New Text: We STRONGLY RECOMMEND these
characters be chosen from the first 127 characters of the Unicode character
set, so that no more than 4096 bytes of storage is required regardless
of whether it is represented in Unicode, ASCII or a byte array.