Re: [rfc-i] Unicode in xml2rfc v3

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Mon, 11 January 2021 09:23 UTC

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On 2021-1-11, at 11:13, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> What I'd recommend to do is to give the RPC a little tool that shows all the non-ASCII characters with a special background color so that they can very quickly check what's in there (because it usually shouldn't be much). Having tooltips giving more character information, and with time building up a list of dos and donts would be the next step.

Like it!

Could even be an option to xml2rfc, to allow authors to verify whether any of the tools they used did weird things.

Lars
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