Julian Reschke wrote:
People can read/edit their local characters.
People can't read/edit local characters of other people.
A conservative approach would be:
1) allow non-ASCII contact information *in addition* to the ASCII version
2) allow non-ASCII in I18N example
No. The conservative approach currently deployed is to have ASCII
contact information only, which is enough.
for 1), it really doesn't matter whether everybody can read it;
just stick with the ASCII version
for 2), we should be able to identify a few non-ASCII characters that
are suitable for use in I18N examples which *do* work widely (a few
greek characters?)
Greek capital letter 'A', which is identical to Latin chapital
letter 'A', is already tooooo much.
HTML is already too complex and unstable that there is no hope that
The current version is 4.01, and it has been stable since 1999. The next
version, 5, is approaching Last Call, and is unlikely to break anything
that is actually in use.
With more than 40 years of history of RFC, HTML is unstable.
Even compatible ones? Just asking...
Tools does not support restricted profile very well, as was
demonstrated by a circled 'R' character in a
claimed-to-be-pure-ASCII PDF.
Masataka Ohta
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