Re: [Ltru] UTF-8 in which field? (Was: draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-07

John Cowan wrote:
>>
>> The 'Description' field MAY thus include UTF-8 characters.
> 
> The point is that "ASCII" is both an encoding and a repertoire,
> whereas "UTF-8" is only an encoding.  The meaning is that the
> Description field may contain characters that are not in the
> ASCII repertoire (whereas most other fields must not).  The
> whole file is in the UTF-8 encoding.
> 

+1

If "non-ASCII" isn't sufficiently positive, a proper reformulation would be:

--
The 'Description' field MAY include the full range of Unicode 
characters. At least one of the 'Description' fields MUST be written or 
transcribed into the Latin script; additional 'Description' fields MAY 
also include a description in a non-Latin script.
--

Note that this reverses the existing order. The current text says:

--
At least one of the 'Description' fields MUST be written or transcribed 
into the Latin script; additional 'Description' fields MAY also include 
a description in a non-Latin script. The 'Description' field MAY thus 
include non-ASCII characters.
--

Addison

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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