Re: [rfc-i] What are current rules on non-ascii in documents?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 15 February 2024 12:21 UTC

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On 2024-02-15, at 12:46, Tom Pusateri <pusateri@bangj.com> wrote:
> 
> Oooh. Maybe I should change the name to aa2unibox?

Well, renamings are always disruptive.
I think it would be enough to explain that the function of this tool is translating traditional ASCII-only RFC box diagrams into Box drawing characters.

(I need to include this in kramdown-rfc’s easy artwork/sourcecode management…)

Grüße, Carsten