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Re: [Tools-discuss] [Cellar] non-ascii characters (fwd) Dave Rice: non-ascii characters

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 27 August 2019 19:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] [Cellar] non-ascii characters (fwd) Dave Rice: non-ascii characters
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Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
    > Hi Michael,

    > Here's my take on this:

    > A number of people has highlighted the desirability of using math
    > symbols in text.  However, this is not currently supported by xml2rfc
    > v3, and will make idnits unhappy.  Putting math in SVG is currently the
    > supported approach.

Yes, and we are using SVG. But we can't do it with XML yet (now Sept. 16).
So we format a txt version for submission to post to the datatracker,
and it has some UTF-8 in it.

Are you agreeing that idnits is in error?

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