Re: RFC Series publishes first RFC with non-ASCII characters

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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

which means RFCs should be pure ASCII just as programming languages
use pure ASCII.

Plan 9's C compilers have supported UTF8 in the grammar for decades.

You still don't understand the problem at all.

As I wrote:

>>> environment has difficulty in handling non-ASCII characters.
>>
>> That's not a problem.

lack of implementations to support a bad idea is not a problem.

As such, providing such implementations is not a solution.

With reasons, C, as standardized by ISO, use pure ASCII.

If a really international team of programmers must tightly
cooperate using Plan 9 C compiler, code must be written using
limited set of characters recognized by all the members.

						Masataka Ohta




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