Re: [rfc-i] Unicode in xml2rfc v3

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Wed, 16 December 2020 15:29 UTC

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On 2020-12-2, at 14:55, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
>> I will stick with my opinion that <contact> should be reverted to its
>> original definition (block content, for formatting similar as authors),
>> and that we should just allow non-ASCII in prose (with the production
>> center having an eye an abuse).
> 
> Completely agree.

Agree as well.

> Until that change happens, we have the workaround, which is marred by the incomplete integration of <contact/> into the grammar.

And other places, as we just discussed on GitHub today.

It's ridiculous that I can't just write α when I mean α.

(Sorry, I'm grumpy.)

Lars
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