Re: [I18ndir] [art] New Version Notification for draft-bray-unichars-06.txt

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Sun, 01 October 2023 17:44 UTC

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From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:44:51 +0000
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To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Oct 1, 2023 at 9:44:28 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

So, this document is a good thing to point people at.
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> I believe we are still confused who this document is for and what we are
> trying to achieve.
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I repeat: To inform protocol designers that it’s insufficient to say
“Unicode characters” for their text fields. And, having explained why,
offer reasonable alternative character repertoires.

Since I got sensitized to this issue by that 8259 errata report, I am
seeing Internet-drafts go by *every week* that are sloppy in this respect
and could be easily fixed.



> Grüße, Carsten
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