Julian Reschke wrote: > those who still use operating systems with no builtin support > for UTF-8 are knowledgeable enough to run a text file - in > particular if it has a UTF BOM - through GNU recode. A mandatory BOM for those I-Ds / RFCs actually using UTF-8 is an idea for Paul's next draft. Just for fun I test it here. I don't know "GNU recode" so far - my UTF-8 script would only recode characters with a 1:1 correspondence in windows-1252. So maybe Paul would also need "fully normalized" as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/ (that's not yet ready). Bye, Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf