Re: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'ProposedExperiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' toExperimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

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On 22-jun-2006, at 9:21, Tom.Petch wrote:

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Where else?

I think this is closer to what an RFC with Unicode line art would
look like than trying to present an example in email. For me, the
UTF-8 encoding isn't immediately decoded properly by my browser, but
the UTF-16 version is. I also can't get this displayed properly on
the command line on my Mac. Still, it's not _too_ hard to have the
Unicode characters displayed properly.

I agree in principle that adding a selected subset of Unicode would address the most pressing issues. But, for whatever reason, I get gibberish on both the URLs you give. By contrast, the figure embedded in an e-mail earlier displayed perfectly (until it got mangled when included in a reply). This suggests to me that the world is not quite ready for Unicode yet (I am using vanilla Windows
software, as most of the world does:-(.

Well, apparently Windows isn't, although I gather that it does actually support Unicode to a more noticable degree than I've seen. As someone else observed, my server adds an ISO-8859-1 header (thank you Apache for guessing (wrong) what the file contains and then overwrite what's specified in the file or what the client may guess correctly, wasting a little bandwidth for every request). I've done some additional experimenting, most notably at:

http://www.muada.com/drafts/utf8-art.php
http://www.muada.com/drafts/utf8-art-html.php

These both result in something workable on the Mac with Safari, something that works to varying degrees in Firefox on Mac/Linux/ Windows but no luck on Windows with Internet Explorer. (The right header in gets stuffed into the HTTP reply with PHP.) Apart from IE's ineptitude the main problem is that most systems have a hard time getting all the characters the same width.

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