Re: Reviewing IETF documents

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 16:58:52 EDT


Dear Florian Weimer,

Are there any specific documents that you are aware of that have
a problem or potential problem?

tex

Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> Is someone constantly reviewing IETF documents (drafts and RFCs) which
> use UTF-8 or other Unicode-related technology?
>
> It seems that some WGs have not much experience in Unicode issues
> and just permit UTF-8 in places were formerly only ASCII was
> allowed, and are not fully aware of the consequences (multiple UTF-8
> representations of the same glyph, additional control characters, to
> name just two).

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