Re: So do both [was Re: Should the IETF be condoning, even promoting, BOM pollution?]

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On 27 Sep. 2017 6:51 am, "Carsten Bormann" <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> So why don't we, the Internet standards people who believe in rough
> consensus and running code, request the RFC Editor (a friend of ours)
> to supply two text versions of each RFC, like
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8187.txt   as today, with BOM if relevant
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8187.ut8   containing pure UTF-8 with no BOM ever

Because that sends an even stronger signal that the IETF has given up on UTF-8 being the standard text encoding.

Stronger than https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6657#section-4


A better way to do this — just add:

> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8187.txt?and-get-me-a-bom-for-that-because-my-environment-cant-handle-utf8-without

(Possibly slightly abbreviated, as in ?agmabftbmechuw.)

So everybody else can still easily wget/curl the undamaged .txt file.

Grüße, Carsten


That's the same way -- two URLs are two URLs, the exact spelling is paint.

In the background, how does the presentation of file names as URLs interact with the names of files that are rsynced? Is it a 1:1 mapping (are they served from the same place)? 

Cheers
--
Matthew Kerwin 

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