Re: [rfc-i] Unicode in xml2rfc v3

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 20 December 2020 17:30 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
To: Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org>, rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org
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On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> I am not arguing that all text produced should be in ASCII.  In fact 
> non-normative parts of a standard could use non-ASCII  -- I do not read these 
> anyway because I believe that a standard should be implementable even after 
> been stripped of all the informative parts (abstract, introduction, overview 
> of operations, examples, any diagram that is not complete, any list that is 
> not exhaustive, informative references, appendices).

Let me just say that the standards documents you use appear to be very 
unlike the ones I use.  Perhaps it's applications, which have to deal with 
input from people, compared to lower level stuff.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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