Paul Hoffman wrote: > Listing an author as Patrik Fältström is > not "readable". >From my POV it's better than F=84lttr=94m (858 QP) or F=E4ltstr=F6m (1252 QP) or F=C3=A4ltstr=C3=B6m (UTF-8 QP). With your proposal I'd see Fältström (intentionally raw UTF-8 encoded in the Latin-1 subset of windows-1252). AFAIK xml2rfc would transform it to Faeltstroem for its ASCII output formats - perfectly readable, but wrong. With NCRs we'd get Fältström - not exactly the best readable version, but at least it's correct, and IMO better than F=C3=A4lttr=C3=B6m. I'm not very good at decoding UTF-8 (QP or raw) "manually". > People would have to search using the escaped-HTML > kludge, even though our documents are plain text. Yes, we'd need a new "text/plane" or whatever, plain ASCII plus NCRs isn't the same as text/plain ASCII. Your idea text/plain UTF-8 also isn't the default for text/plain. Same problem, do you expect an update of 2046 introducing UTF-8 as new default for text/plain ? I'd prefer to revisit your idea when the IEE / IMA folks have something that works somewhere - in other words 2007, not next year. Bye, Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf