[rfc-i] Problems and requirements for RFC Format

["Martin J. Dürst"]

On 2012/04/18 15:01, Joe Touch wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:53 PM, "Martin J. Dürst"<duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>  wrote:
>
>> On 2012/04/18 7:01, Joe Touch wrote:

>>> (at all phases) "Ability to denote protocol examples using the character
>>> sets those examples support". This is a variant of "Respect for authors'
>>> names", but is more technically-oriented.
>>
>> Yes, non-ASCII in examples is very helpful in some cases. However, the wording above may be confusing, because "character set" is sometimes (e.g. in MIME) used to stand for character encoding.
>
> I used that term to match what we use for various protocols.

But the problem is that it's used in a different meaning than in the 
protocols.


>> What about the following wording:
>>
>> "Need to be able to use non-ASCII characters in author's names and in examples."
>
> I left the two issues separate - and think they should remain so.
>
> Non-ASCII for author names is distinct from on-ASCII for examples.

Separating is fine, but may look a bit boring:

"Need to be able to use non-ASCII characters in authors' names."
"Need to be able to use non-ASCII characters in examples."

[Note that I also fixed the position of the apostrophe in "authors'".]

Regards,    Martin.