Re: Towards consensus on document format

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I developed tools to convert RFC from/to mediawiki pages. As long as RFC 3935 obliges to use English ASCII, the simplest English ASCII format is the best as it permits easy format conversion. The only real problem I meet is the impossibility to use circles in figures.
jfc

2010/3/16 Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>

On 16.03.2010 14:14, Doug Ewell wrote:

Brian E Carpenter <brian dot e dot carrpenter at gmail dot com> wrote:

Note that I am not arguing in favor of plain text as the IETF
standard. I just want to keep this part of the discussion real. There
is no requirement anywhere that plain-text files may contain only
ASCII characters.

That requirement is explicit for RFCs.

It is explicit for RFCs, but not for plain-text files in general. IETF
could theoretically change the RFC requirement, although you are correct
that given the non-acceptance of draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs, it seems
unlikely. The topic did come up again on the list, with the usual
conflation of "ASCII" and "plain text."

Indeed.

Speaking of which: did we ever *measure* the acceptance of draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs? As far as I recall, there was lots of support for it.

Best regards, Julian

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