Form feed in Net-UTF8? (Was: FWD: Re: Comments on Unicode Format for Network Interchange

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 05 October 2007 15:12 UTC

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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:12:27 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Form feed in Net-UTF8? (Was: FWD: Re: Comments on Unicode Format for Network Interchange
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Doug Ewell said:

> > I recommend that the control code FF (form feed, U+000C) be
> > likewise permitted.  The form feed function is well known and well
> > defined in almost all printing functions, and all RFCs issued in
> > modern times use FF to separate pages.  It would ironic indeed for
> > the Internet-Draft to retain the requirement that form feeds
> > "SHOULD NOT be used unless required by exceptional circumstances"
> > while advancing toward publication as an RFC, complete with form
> > feeds!

And I did not see anywhere a discussion of this specific point. I
notice that draft-klensin-net-utf8-04 still disallows (actually, it is
a SHOULD NOT in section 2.1) form feeds and I'm not sure of the
rationale. Why end-of-lines and not end-of-pages?