On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 16.03.2010 14:14, Doug Ewell wrote: >> >> Brian E Carpenter <brian dot e dot carpenter 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. Some people are more equal than others. -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf