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Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Fri, 12 March 2010 05:26 UTC

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Doug Ewell wrote:

> These are two separate topics.  You could have plain text encoded in 
> UTF-8.  You could have HTML or PDF-A that uses nothing but ASCII 
> characters.

As was demonstrated by Tim Bray against Martin Rex's ASCII message,
they are strongly interrelated topics.

						Masataka Ohta

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