Julian Reschke wrote: > > I don't buy that. We've got something like 1 billion people on the > planet running web browsers, and I'm pretty confident we can find a few > non-ASCII characters everybody can display which could be used in examples. What exactly is the purpose of "a few non-ASCII characters everybody can display"? And while the environments that I use are mostly capable to display ISO-Latin-1, I do _NOT_ know names for the majority of symbols from > 128, and would have severe difficulties discussing stuff with such symbols in speech, like in-person, at a bar, over lunch or on the phone, and therefore don't want to have any of them in RFCs. Discussing non-ASCII characters often requires the use of unicode codepoints to avoid ambiguities and the lack of familiarity of most people of this planet with the glyphs on most unicode codepoints. Describing a unicode codepoint by its numeric value with characters from IA5/US-ASCII, on the other hand, is fairly simple and straightforward. -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf