John C Klensin wrote:
For the second, it claims that the file isn't "plain text" and
won't post it or even provide a manual submission path. The
file is output or xml2rfc, has proper CRLF line endings, and, if
it contains any non-ASCII characters or serious format
misbehavior, the online version of idnits can't find it, even in
very verbose mode. [rt.amsl.com #1799]
I also encountered this problem (rt.amsl.com #1730), and after some
debugging, discovered what the problem was: the submission tool uses
the "file" program to check whether the file is plain text or not, and
(apparently) the "file" program on the new servers behaves slightly
differently from the old one.
In particular, if you have the string "(if approved)" on your cover
page, some versions of "file" (at least some Linux distributions)
will identify your draft as "Lisp/Scheme program text" instead of
just ASCII :-)
Best regards,
Pasi
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