[I18ndir] draft-bray-unichars-01

[Tim Bray <[e-mail]>]

Hello I18ndir (anyone still here?), Paul Hoffman and I just submitted
draft-bray-unichars-01 - our AD Francesca Palombini suggested we notify
this list: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bray-unichars/

This draft fell out of a conversation originally provoked by this errata
report: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7603

It revealed a distressing lack of consensus about Unicode characters and
code points and character repertoires. I feel personally bad because I am
the editor of a couple of RFCs that are open to criticism on this front.

So, this tries to say “here’s how an RFC should specify which Unicode
characters it supports”.  We think this would be useful to multiple groups
almost immediately, including especially those who don’t realize the area
can be problematic.

Anyhow, the purpose of this note is to ask your advice on how to take this
forward. We think this works well as an individual submission.   We don’t
*think* it needs a working group, but that’s not our call. The draft
doesn’t express any opinions about best practices, it just points out
several alternative character repertoires, provides ABNF, and discusses
their trade-offs.  None of them are wrong.