On Thu, 21 May 2026, Carsten Bormann wrote:
There are certainly issues of strange characters that are likely to confuse
people but the bit in section 2 about "People whose systems do not have the
fonts needed to display part of a particular RFC" or section 3 about "many
[characters] whose ability to be displayed is debatable" don't make sense in
HTML or PDF versions of RFCs.
Hmm, not everyone uses a browser that can download and display fonts.
(With strong apologies for the “well, actually”.)
I'm not sure we really need to optimize for the 14 people who still use
lynx. The HTML is also full of Javascript without which you lose some of
the utility of the HTML version.
RFCs look fine in lynx (I checked) and if you are enough of a troglodyte
to use it, you can probably figure out how to install fonts for your
terminal emulator.
Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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