Re: non-US-ASCII characters in IETF documents

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

At 05:31 PM 9/25/2001, stanislav shalunov wrote:
> The "proper" encoding of my name is óÔÁÎÉÓÌÁ× ûÁÌÕÎÏ× (in KOI8-R; the
> Russian language has at least four character sets in active use).  Can
> you read that?  I thought so.  That's why I write it in US-ASCII in
> English-language documents (such as I-Ds).


Let me be more explicit about the ability to encode names.

Having an ASCII reprsentation is important, for the reason you 
demonstrate.  This is merely the standard argument in favor of ASCII for 
IETF documents.  That benefit is far too strong to challenge, nevermind change.

However, there is no harm -- and there is some benefit, if only as a matter 
of courtesy -- in permitting you to ADD a string that can be decoded to 
your native form.

The only issue is HOW.

d/


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