Re: [rfc-i] Unicode in xml2rfc v3

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 18 December 2020 00:30 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:29:52 -0800
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To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc-i] Unicode in xml2rfc v3
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:57 PM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> Emojis in RFCs don’t have to be ruled out by some mechanism (just as
> writing RFCs that are entirely about farting doesn't have to be); having a
> bit of (much more flexible) policy about this is fine (although we somehow
> never needed that for the second example).
>

FWIW, while I don't generally think we ought to have our documents written
in emojis, I do see some potentially valid reasons for them to appear, for
instance if one was writing a document about the use of emojis.

-Ekr
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