Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>]

Peter Dambier schrieb:
>...
> > Unicode Box Drawing
> >
> > ??????????????????
> > ? This is a box  ?
> > ??????????????????
> > ?With another box?
> > ?   underneath   ?
> > ??????????????????
>
> There were no boxes but a peculiar line below.
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...

Well, that indicates that your mail program either didn't understand the 
character encoding, or that the font you are using is missing glyphs for 
some of the Unicode box drawing characters.

As far as I am concerned, at some point the IETF should start on relying 
on some of 1990's technology being present, such as relying on certain 
Unicode code points to be readable by everybody. That being said, at 
least on Win XP the standard fonts seem to support only a subset of the 
 Unicode box drawing characters, which is a shame.

Best regards, Julian

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