Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] bcp14, was: [xml2rfc-dev] New xml2rfc release: v2.25.0

Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 26 August 2019 20:36 UTC

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From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:36:45 -0700
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> On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
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> It seems to me that future tools that process our XML should be prepared
> to deal with unicode whitespace generally, not only ASCII space.

That makes sense to me. The normative language is as seen by the eye and processed by the brain, not as processed by some random computer program. One implication is that it can be broken by a line feed or any other construct that the brain renders as white space.