Hi, > You're heading into new territory, here. Right now > IETF documents are written in English and they're
If you allow a bit of nitpicking here: they cannot be written in all the labels the English language has to offer, and thus they can only be written in a *subset* of English. So a devil's advocate (which I absolutely don't mind playing here) could say that the restriction to ASCII *prevents* expressing oneself in the full bouquet of English language; unfortunately, English language is mandatory for IETF documents. So, staying with ASCII would require a reformulation for IETF language from "English" to "English words which can be expressed in ASCII encoding" Example? "Naïve" is a perfectly valid English word. (If your mail reader doesn't display this correctly: that's an i with two dots on top instead of one) Likewise is "coup d'état" an English word (e with accent). All loan words from French, but nontheless English words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27Etat At least the first one has been used in an I-D from the IAB very recently (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-idn-encoding-00.txt). It used the alternative spelling with a normal i; the other spelling was obviously impossible for the reasons we are discussing in (parts of) this thread. Maybe the author wanted to use that alternative spelling anyway, but maybe he was forced to use it even though it hurt his eye and he is now drowning in grief over the butchering of language he was forced to execute in order to publish his work. We will never know for sure; unless of course the author tells us about his feelings on this list :-) Let's give ASCII its long-overdue coup de grâce ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_grace ). Greetings, Stefan Winter > displayable on a wider variety of hardware than HTML > is. As I mentioned in the mail to which you're responding, > I think the choice of formats tends to support more > openness and accessibility. I think you're implicitly > arguing that that's not the right tradeoff, and frankly > I think it's exactly the right tradeoff, myself. > > Melinda > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Stefan WINTER Ingenieur de Recherche Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg Tel: +352 424409 1 Fax: +352 422473 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
