On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Tuesday, October 14, 2025 22:57 -0400 John R Levine
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, John C Klensin wrote:
In that context, "common sense" works only if the person applying
it has a reasonable understanding of the writing system involved
and, where relevant, the language. If there are people in the
world with that level of understanding of all of the world's
scripts and languages, past or present, I've seen little evidence
of many of them as active IETF participants, much less as active
participants who are likely to try writing I-Ds and RFCs. ...
I dunno about you, but I think the RPC knows how to ask for help if
they run into arcane complicated script questions like this.
I have every confidence in that. But I also see two problems.
First, suppose, using the "all displayable text is allowed" principle
and with knowledge that there are communities who would have no
trouble reading it, someone submits text in Beria Erfe. Where would
you expect the RPC to find help? Certainly not from me and, I
assume, not from you, Alexis, or whomever speaks up next on this
either. The W3C per-language documents might be helpful, but, AFAIK,
there isn't one for that script yet.
So they say, we don't know how to edit this, you'll have to change it
unless we can find someone who knows about it. I also think that it is
not a good use of our time to try and plan for .001% corner cases.
You're rignt about the fonts, its Wikipedia page looks awful.
Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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