Paul Hoffman wrote:
Listing an author as Patrik Fältström is
not "readable".
From my POV it's better than F=84lttr=94m (858 QP) or
F=E4ltstr=F6m (1252 QP) or F=C3=A4ltstr=C3=B6m (UTF-8 QP).
With your proposal I'd see Fältström (intentionally
raw UTF-8 encoded in the Latin-1 subset of windows-1252).
AFAIK xml2rfc would transform it to Faeltstroem for its
ASCII output formats - perfectly readable, but wrong.
With NCRs we'd get Fältström - not exactly the
best readable version, but at least it's correct, and
IMO better than F=C3=A4lttr=C3=B6m. I'm not very good
at decoding UTF-8 (QP or raw) "manually".
People would have to search using the escaped-HTML
kludge, even though our documents are plain text.
Yes, we'd need a new "text/plane" or whatever, plain
ASCII plus NCRs isn't the same as text/plain ASCII.
Your idea text/plain UTF-8 also isn't the default for
text/plain. Same problem, do you expect an update of
2046 introducing UTF-8 as new default for text/plain ?
I'd prefer to revisit your idea when the IEE / IMA
folks have something that works somewhere - in other
words 2007, not next year.
Bye, Frank
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