One of the reasons I wanted to avoid all this and keep it simple. 

Dino

> On Jul 9, 2024, at 10:15 AM, Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 9, 2024 at 10:07:44 AM, "Salz, Rich" 
> <rsalz=40akamai....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>> UTF8 is upward compatible with ASCII.  That is, all seven-bit ASCII 
>> characters are valid UTF8 characters.
> 
> I don’t want to be pedantic here (sigh, anything involving Unicode always 
> becomes pedantic) but Rich, it wouldn’t actually be a good idea to require 
> “UTF-8”. What you want to require is UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters, and 
> probably not all of them.  PRECIS in RFC8264 provides a fully-thought-through 
> subset of Unicode for identifiers. If that’s too complicated, 
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bray-unichars-09.html, now under AD 
> sponsorship by Orie, provides a much simpler but still useful subset.

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