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Re: New draft (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 02 February 2007 12:50 UTC

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:50:12 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: Re: New draft (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:38:53AM +0000,
 Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net> wrote 
 a message of 35 lines which said:

> * Somewhere in the last two paragraphs of 1.1 you should be talking
> about mini-languages (e.g. Cosmogol) as well as protocols and UIs.

This is clearly a difficult issue since RFC 2277 is clear on:

* text carried by a protocol (i18n is necessary)
* protocol elements (i18n is optional)

but does not mention formats, mini-languages and so on. RFC 4234 is a
good example of a format whose i18n rules are unclear.

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