no objection to this change.

On 28.06.25 04:19, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Fri 2025-05-30 19:53:47 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On Tue 2025-05-20 18:07:44 -0700, rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org wrote:
>>> 27) <!--[rfced] We note that the figures in the sections listed below are
>>> either misaligned and/or have broken lines in the PDF output (the
>>> html and txt outputs display correctly). To avoid this issue,
>>> please let us know if replacing/redrawing the non-ASCII
>>> characters with ASCII characters is possible (this is commonly
>>> done for structure in YANG trees; see Section 5 of RFC 9731 as an
>>> example). Or if you have a different solution for a fix, please
>>> let us know.
>>>
>>> Sections:
>>>    4.1.1.1
>>>    4.1.2.1
>>>    4.1.2.2
>>>    6.2.1.1 (second structure)
>>>    7.3 (both structures)
>>> -->
>> This is appears to be a bug in XML2RFC's PDF converter when a line
>> begins with whitespace followed by a non-ASCII character.
>>
>> I've opened a report for xml2rfc, please feel free to follow up there:
>>
>>      https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/1245
> The discussion at this ticket uncovered a few different things which i
> didn't know:
>
> - according to Kesara, the RPAT/RSWG claim that the only fonts in use in
>    the pdf form should be Noto and Roboto Mono.
>
> - Roboto Mono has no coverage for BOX DRAWINGS characters or ↧ or ⇩
>
> - Noto Sans Mono does have coverage for BOX DRAWINGS, but not for ↧ or ⇩
>
> - Noto Sans Mono is fixed width at nearly exactly the same width as
>    Roboto Mono, making it a reasonable substitution.
>
> - With a small tweak to xml2rfc [0] it should be simple enough to have
>    monospace fonts fall back from Roboto Mono to Noto Sans Mono for
>    glyphs that aren't covered in Roboto Mono.
>
> [0] 
> https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/pull/1261/commits/00dae3832b3583099a1a92c7048eeeff102243d2
>
> I propose replacing ↧ and ⇩ with symbols from the BOX DRAWINGS range
> instead.
>
> The attached proposed XML file makes this substitution for the MIME tree
> diagrams.  It will still render as misaligned, however, as long as the
> fix [0] is not applied to xml2rfc.
>
> If you think this is reasonable, let me know and i can try to make a
> comparable revision for RFC 9788.
>
>     --dkg
>

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