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

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Michael,

On 2019-08-27 21:35, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> 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).

That's when the RFC-Editor intends to start publishing xml, I believe?

But you should already be able to post drafts using v3 XML -- any reason not
to do so?  (It doesn't affect your primary question, but I'm curious.)

> 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?

For publication purposes, the final arbiter isn't idnits, and the idnits
message for non-ascii characters has been downgraded from error to warning,
since it's not sufficiently sophisticated to clearly tell what's acceptable
and what's not, based on RFC 7997.  I think it's right to emit a warning,
in order to have both authors, shepherd and ADs consider the case, but
can't make any further judgement.


	Henrik