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Re: [xml2rfc-dev] Unicode box-drawing for a new --table-borders value?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 01 February 2021 20:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc-dev] Unicode box-drawing for a new --table-borders value?
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On 2021-02-01, at 21:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> 
> I really hope that's not the case, as the documents would be
> significantly worse (and probably harder to maintain) if i had to revert
> to ASCII line art or convert to embedded SVG.  I'm grateful that the
> current publication process doesn't block them, at any rate.

I don’t think anybody wants to turn the clock back on beyond-ASCII in artwork.

I do want to see some forward movement of the clock on beyond-ASCII in non-artwork text.

Grüße, Carsten

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