--On Thursday, October 16, 2025 16:54 +0000 Paul Hoffman
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 16, 2025, at 08:43, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I do wonder why we do not use the word "English" anywhere.
> 
> Because it is part of the Style Guide. If we put it here, that
> limits updates to the Style Guide, and the WG said that we should
> limit the RPC as little as possible on policies that we can watch.
> 
>> As a nit, the exceptions could be better structured:
>> 
>>> Note that this policy only applies to normative or descriptive
>>> text; text such as names does not need character description.
>>> Further, some RFC authors might choose to use something other
>>> than the "U+NNNN" syntax to describing characters, such as if the
>>> RFC already covers a different syntax that the reader will
>>> understand from the rest of the RFC.
>> 
>> Could be:
>> 
>>> This policy applies only to normative or descriptive text.  Names
>>> and examples require different treatment; see sections X and Y
>>> respectively.
>> 
>> The text on U+nNnN alternatives can be moved to the preceding
>> paragraph, which addresses that point.
> 
> I like this; do others here like it as well?

Yes.  Significant improvement.

   john

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