[rfc-i] Does the canonical RFC format need to be "readable" by developers and others?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

On 6 Jul 2012, at 19:54 , Martin Rex wrote:

> Today we have smartphones with 32-bit CPUs, >200Mhz clocks and
> 512MByte+ memory, and they utterly fail with the trivial task to
> render ASCII reasonably.  Looks like a serious QA problem to me.

You have successfully proven that the issue is not one of hardware performance.

I contend that the issue is that the world has moved on from formatted text files so nobody feels the need to support those explicitly anymore.