#2447 KIP – Replace the phrase "high ANSI" with "Latin-1 Supplement"

[James Smith]

KIP stands for KeePass Improvement Proposal. In the section Generation Based on Patterns of the KeePass Help Center* it is said that the placeholder x stands for "High ANSI (character) Range [U+0080, U+00FF] except control and non-printable characters."

A Google search using the terms "High ANSI" (with quotes) generates 64,700 results. On the 1st page, only 5 results have anything to do with passwords or character sets.

On the other hand, using the search terms "Latin 1 Supplement" yields 1,860,000 results. And page after page of search results refer to Unicode characters.

I propose to replace the phrase "high ANSI" with "Latin-1 Supplement" for the following reasons:

1. Latin-1 Supplement refers unequivocally to Unicode characters in the range [U+00A0, U+00FF].
2. Using the phrase Latin-1 Supplement eliminates the need to say "except control and non-printable characters."
3. The term "high ANSI" is ambiguous.
4. The phrase "ANSI character set" has no well-defined meaning.

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• I was inspired by the BIP acronym (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal).

[Dominik Reichl]

I've changed this in both KeePass 2.x and 1.x now (and added a few example characters to the option name).

Here are the latest development snapshots for testing:
KeePass 2.x: https://keepass.info/filepool/KeePass_190710_2.zip
KeePass 1.x: https://keepass.info/filepool/KeePass_190710_1.zip

The documentation will be updated when the next KeePass version is released.

Thanks and best regards,
Dominik