Fred Baker wrote: > On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > >> Challenge for our IT folks: Internationalized Internet Drafts, >> including file names. Doable? > > It's doable, no doubt. The next question is whether this is actually > smart. > > The Finnish character set is something I can deal with, although my > keyboard differs from a Finnish one, making typing the name in > something I would have to think about. I personally don't speak or > read any of the languages that use derivatives of the Han character > set, and will find it difficult to read or point you to a draft with > a Japanese or Chinese name. > > I'm inclined to wonder what problem you're solving and what problem > you're trading that one for. I imagine it is that you would like to > be able to use Finnish words in draft monikers or to post internet > drafts in Finnish. I would counsel you to be careful what you wish > for. If the important thing is global communication among engineers, > this might take you in a direction you didn't really intend. Well, two wishes that come up frequently are really modest: - the ability to provide properly spelled contact information - the ability to use non-ASCII characters in specification text that deals with I18N Of course to make this useful, it would need to be accepted in RFCs as well. BR, Julian _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf