Re: [xml2rfc-dev] When is @ascii required?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

(Looking at the source of the message in preptool.py/check_ascii_text, I also don’t understand this:

                if self.tree.docinfo.encoding.lower() in ['us-ascii', ]:
                    self.die(c, “Found non-ascii content in a document with xml encoding declared as %s” % self.tree.docinfo.encoding)

I don’t understand what the source encoding has to do with this; XML allows me to have beyond-ascii characters in documents the xml encoding of which uses us-ascii (or koi8-r, for that matter).  I think that any access to self.tree.docinfo.encoding at this point in processing is a layer violation.)

Grüße, Carsten


> On Oct 27, 2019, at 18:24, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> I’m not quite sure I understand when I have to provide the ascii=“” attribute.
> 
> I can have authors that have umlauts without further ado.
> If I have organizations with umlauts, I need to put in ascii=“”, or I get:
> 
> t2trg-sworn.xml(20): Error: Found non-ascii content without matching ascii attribute in <organization>: Universit?t Bremen TZI
> 
> (Note also that the error message has some mojibake.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
>