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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 30 August 2019 04:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] [Cellar] non-ascii characters (fwd) Dave Rice: non-ascii characters
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On Aug 27, 2019, at 23:06, Tom Pusateri <pusateri=40bangj.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> RFC 7997 is pretty clear when UTF-8 is permissible and math symbols are not in the list.

I believe, with a 2019 perspective on the world, this is no longer the right decision.
We are incurring the costs of supporting Unicode but not reaping its benefits.
Providing HTML as a main viewing format and not even being able to solve the hyphen-dash-minus problem leads to weird-looking documents.
How is requiring SVG display support for understanding a document better than simply requiring Unicode support?

Grüße, Carsten

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