RE: I-D ACTION:draft-brezak-spnego-http-00.txt

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-brezak-spnego-http-00.txt

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, John Brezak wrote:

> Before jumping to conclusions, where is the offending character?

In the first line of your abstract. The line was quoted for context.
A 'smart' Apostrophe, very appropriately used. (If it was "IETF's",
I'd wince.)

The circumflex is repeated in the header lines; you probably see an
em-dash.


> I try to catch these, but sometimes they slip through. A little
> context from the document will help me find them and correct them
> for a subsequent submission to correct typos.

I think it's reasonable to presume that you are familiar with your own
document. I mean, it's only six pages, and there's almost no original
content on three of them.

L.

IE5 supports Kerberos? Real Kerberos?

<L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Wollman [mailto:wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:27 AM
> To: John Brezak
> Cc: ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-brezak-spnego-http-00.txt
> 
> 
> <<On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:11:10 -0400, Internet-Drafts at ietf.org said:
> 
> > This document describes how Microsoft\306s Internet Explorer 5.0 and
> 
> This announcement continues a disturbing trend of MicrosoftSCII
> appearing in what are supposed to be ASCII text documents.  It's
> particularly egregious in this announcement, since there is no
> Content-Type header indicating in what character set the \306 should be
> rendered.  (In my system's default encoding, it's a capital
> ae-ligature.)  The document itself also contains \373 characters as well
> (seen as u-circumflex).
> 
> -GAWollman