On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum
<iljitsch(_at_)muada(_dot_)com> wrote:
If we really want to do something in this space first of all we need to agree
on the problem, then on the requirements and THEN we can have a useful
discussion. So far the only thing I hear is assertions offered without any
foundation that the current format is problematic, while every personal
computer operating system sold (or given away for free) the past decade can
display it without the need to install additional software.
OK, one more time, let me enumerate the problems with the current
format. I agree that you may not perceive them as problems, but they
are problems for me:
1. I cannot print them correctly on either Windows or Mac.
2. I cannot view them at all on the mobile device with a highly
competent web browser with which I do an increasing proportion of my
information consumption.
3. I cannot enter the name of an author correctly if that name
includes non-ASCII characters.
4. I cannot provide an actual illustrative working example of the use
of non-ASCII text in Internet Protocols.
I have no problem with people disagreeing on the way forward, but I'm
getting a bit short-tempered when I hear people claim that nobody's
said what the current problems are.
The following are things that I am NOT asking for:
1. Graphics
2. PDF
3. The use of non-English languages in spec text
- Tim
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