Yeah :-Z So my inclination is to say "tabs in artwork are evil" and move on. Some folk like to use them when constructing text, but my suggestion is that they convert to spaces/LF before posting drafts.
If anyone wants to write another document tabs in json then, erm, knock yourselves out. But I would prefer to just exclude them from folding at this time. Cheers, Adrian > -----Original Message----- > From: netmod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tom petch > Sent: 18 September 2018 10:54 > To: Carsten Bormann; Robert Wilton > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-kwatsen-netmod- > artwork-folding-07.txt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carsten Bormann" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 12:14 PM > > > On Sep 14, 2018, at 13:05, Robert Wilton > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > If all input files that we might ever want to fold and include in an > RFC are guaranteed to never contain tabs then I agree with the position > that they can just be rejected. > > > > Yep. > > > > > But if there is some future file format that we want to fold that > might contain tabs, then I wonder whether it would not be more robust to > look at whether they could be handled in some way. > > > > VT characters (colloquially tabs) should not be significant in any > file format designed in the last couple of decades (i.e., they should be > replaceable by spaces). If they (or any other characters not > representable in RFCs) are, or preserving byte wise identity is > important, follow the lead of RFC 6716 and base64-encode. > > This confuses me. This I-D references RFC7991 which clearly defines tab > as 9, which RFC20 labels H(orizontal) T(ab). V(ertical) T(ab) is 11. > > I would not expect VT to appear in any recent document but when it does, > then replacing it by spaces would be wrong, IMHO. HT I do see, far too > much of, because there is no metadata saying what the Horizontal Tab > settings should be and while a value of five is common, there are RFC > where replacing tab characters with five spaces yields rubbish. > > Tom Petch > > > > > > > > > > Grüße, Carsten > > > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
