I've noticed that the recent debate on the ASCII text format has often conflated formatting of artwork and Unicode support. I think finding a non-text artwork format that has free uniform authoring (including diffs) and viewer support will be impossible for the next 5-10 years. An XML equivalent to Postscript may eventually be widely implemented. The current effort, SVG, is a massive specification, unevenly implemented, and lacks a thorough test suite. Unicode support is a different matter. I find the current IETF policy to be incredibly bigoted. Many RFCs and I-Ds are currently forced to misspell the names of authors and contributors, which doesn't seem like correct attribution to me. So, I recommend that the IETF secretariat and the RFC Editor change their policies to allow UTF-8 text files. That way, older RFCs and I-Ds produced using the current tools would follow the same encoding. I'm sure someone has already suggested this approach, but I'll add my voice to the chorus. Robert Sayre _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf