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

["John Brezak" <jbrezak at windows.microsoft.com>]

Thanx. I'm fixing it up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Wood [mailto:l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:12 AM
To: John Brezak
Cc: Garrett Wollman; ietf
Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-brezak-spnego-http-00.txt


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