I developed tools to convert RFC from/to mediawiki pages. As long as RFC 3935 obliges to use English ASCII, the simplest English ASCII format is the best as it permits easy format conversion. The only real problem I meet is the impossibility to use circles in figures. jfc
2010/3/16 Julian Reschke <julian.resc...@gmx.de> > On 16.03.2010 14:14, Doug Ewell wrote: > >> Brian E Carpenter <brian dot e dot carrpenter at gmail dot com> wrote: >> >> Note that I am not arguing in favor of plain text as the IETF >>>> standard. I just want to keep this part of the discussion real. There >>>> is no requirement anywhere that plain-text files may contain only >>>> ASCII characters. >>>> >>> >>> That requirement is explicit for RFCs. >>> >> >> It is explicit for RFCs, but not for plain-text files in general. IETF >> could theoretically change the RFC requirement, although you are correct >> that given the non-acceptance of draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs, it seems >> unlikely. The topic did come up again on the list, with the usual >> conflation of "ASCII" and "plain text." >> > > Indeed. > > Speaking of which: did we ever *measure* the acceptance of > draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs? As far as I recall, there was lots of support for > it. > > Best regards, Julian > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >
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