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Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-16 10:09:17
Since there is nobody suggesting a modification of the document format
from 7 bit plaintext to UTF8 and since further it is clear that this
would satisfy neither camp, I fail to see the relevance for including
it.

Expressing surprise that such an option has not been considered is,
well 'interesting'.


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Doug Ewell <doug(_at_)ewellic(_dot_)org> 
wrote:
Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail dot com> wrote:

9) Ability to code names properly
10) Ability to write an intelligible document on internationalization
issues
...
8, 9, 10) Only supported by HTML.

I continue to be puzzled by statements like this.  A plain-text file
encoded in UTF-8 can contain any Unicode character that an HTML document
can contain.

Note that I am not arguing in favor of plain text as the IETF standard.
I just want to keep this part of the discussion real.  There is no
requirement anywhere that plain-text files may contain only ASCII
characters.

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