Julian Reschke wrote: >> 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. > A few characters should be sufficient with specs that deal with I18N. Yes, but, ASCII back slash is already a little too much enough for us Japanese, because, in Japan, JIS Latin, which assigne Yen sign to the code point of back slash, is so widely used. Yes, we can and do accept it but no Latin-1 please. Most people in Japan can recognize Yen sign as back slash but can't recognize Latin-1 specific characters with fancy diacritica marks at all. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf