> Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 10:55:08 AM, you wrote: > Mark> Would there be any way to get the policy on the format of internet drafts to > Mark> be amended to allow UTF-8? It is pretty painful trying to read documents > Mark> when the actual characters cannot be used. > > It has always been difficult to be limited to ascii data. And the problem > is discussed every few years. > > What open standard, for representing non-ascii data, would you recommend? >
I thought it was obvious that he was recommending UTF-8. Or if you prefer: RFC 2279 (or the follow-on of that that Fran�ois Yergeau is working on) which is presumably what the other IETF recommendations about use of UTF-8 in protocols is based on... or ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 and ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001 or The Unicode Standard, Version 3.2 --Ken
