Re: [rfc-i] RFC Series publishes first RFC with non-ASCII characters

[Martin J. Dürst <[e-mail]>]

On 2017/09/15 06:07, Heather Flanagan (RFC Series Editor) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> RFC 8187, "Indicating Character Encoding and Language for HTTP Header
> Field Parameters", is the first RFC to be published with UTF-8 encoding
> and include characters not in the basic ASCII character set. This
> document has been, with the author's consent, patience, and support,
> used to test the existing tool chain to produce RFCs to see where the
> environment has difficulty in handling non-ASCII characters.

Congratulations to everybody involved! Really great to see this move 
forward!

Regards,   Martin.

P.S.: Looking at the RFC, there were exactly 5 non-ASCII characters (two 
'£'s and one '€' in the examples, and two 'ü's, one in Julian's address 
and one in my name in the acks. Now if I ever need a claim to fame, I 
can claim that my name contributed to the first non-ASCII characters in 
RFCs :-).

P.P.S.: Regarding the content of that RFC, I think may already know, but 
for the record, I'll repeat here that I think it's way outdated. I 
really wish the HTTP WG would take some hints from this RFC work and 
finally get the message that straightforward UTF-8 is the way to go (we 
all knew that ages ago, anyway).


> The RPC is
> continues this testing with the PRECIS document cluster (C326), which is
> currently in AUTH48.
> 
> The RPC and the Tools Team has identified several areas that need to be
> modified to support these characters. Some of those areas will
> ultimately be handled with the new format tools; others have been
> modified as part of the more general work to prepare for the new RFC
> format. For the documents being used to test the toolchain, a
> significant amount of manual processing is required to publish the
> RFCs with non-ASCII characters in the final text. In order to keep
> overall processing times down, leave staff enough time to test
> the other tools that are being developed as part of the RFC format
> project, and allow the editors time to create and/or update new
> procedures as the v3 tools are released, no additional non-ASCII
> documents outside of RFC 8187 and the PRECIS cluster will be published
> until the new format tools are in production.
> 
> Many thanks go out to Julian Reschke and Peter Saint-Andre for their
> support, the Tools Team for answering a variety of technical questions,
> and to the RPC staff who worked to ensure that the RFC
> publication process resulted in readable RFCs.
> 
> 
> Heather Flanagan, RSE
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