On 6/18/06, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote:
Clement Cherlin schrieb: > ... > Unicode Box Drawing > > ┌────────────────┐ > │ This is a box │ > ├────────────────┤ > │With another box│ > │ underneath │ > └────────────────┘ > ... I like that. In fact I like it so much that I did add some machinery to rfc2629.xslt that helps in producing those (based on existing ASCII line art). Example at: <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3253.html#rfc.section.14> Best regards, Julian
Very nice. That's a good example of the sorts of diagram that could be displayed in an easier-to-read manner in an RFC using Unicode. And that's only a small sample; there are even more box-drawing characters, arrows and math symbols available in Unicode. Charts are available at <http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html>, particularly the "Mathematical Symbols" section. On 6/18/06, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote:
As far as I am concerned, at some point the IETF should start on relying on some of 1990's technology being present, such as relying on certain Unicode code points to be readable by everybody. That being said, at least on Win XP the standard fonts seem to support only a subset of the Unicode box drawing characters, which is a shame.
It's true that Unicode font support is somewhat spotty. If Unicode were to be specified as the standard for RFCs, there would first need to be an effort to determine which codepoints are available in good quality, freely-available monospace fonts.
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