Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8-06

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 16 October 2007 08:11 UTC

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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:11:14 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Subject: Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8-06
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:17:33AM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote 
 a message of 51 lines which said:

> I think you have to mention LS u+2028 and maybe also PS u+2029
> somewhere.

<über-troll>We should drop the ambiguous, old, ASCII and
typewriter-specific CR and LF and standardize only the Unicode proper
characters, PS and LS for Net-UTF8.</über-troll>

#define TROLL 0
I suggest the following text in 2.1 "Definitions":

For compatibility reasons with the oldest practice, the Unicode
characters U+2028, Line separator, and U+2029, Paragraph separator,
are similarly NOT RECOMMENDED.