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| Canonical format = the authorized, recognized, accepted, official version of the document; other document types may be derived from this format; may or may not be one of the possible output formats | Canonical format = the authorized, recognized, accepted, official version of the document; other document types may be derived from this format; may or may not be one of the possible output formats | ||
| - | Archival format = currently the printed, paper copy of the RFC | + | Archival format = currently the printed, paper copy and the digital .txt of the RFC |
| Output format, Display format = format as it may be read or printed after publication process has completed; currently ASCII, PDF, and HTML are common output or display formats | Output format, Display format = format as it may be read or printed after publication process has completed; currently ASCII, PDF, and HTML are common output or display formats | ||
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| Character encoding - UTF-8 | Character encoding - UTF-8 | ||
| - | * For8: Allows authors to spell their names correctly; certain special characters in equations or quoted from other texts allowed; citations of web pages using more international characters possible; in discussions of internationalization, | + | * For: Allows authors to spell their names correctly; certain special characters in equations or quoted from other texts allowed; citations of web pages using more international characters possible; in discussions of internationalization, |
| - | illustrate the issue is rather helpful, and you can't illustrate a Unicode code point with " | + | |
| * Against: Exactly what characters are allowed and where the line should be drawn remains unclear (why some characters commonly used in European languages and not other, non-Latin characters? This is just pushing the problem around.) | * Against: Exactly what characters are allowed and where the line should be drawn remains unclear (why some characters commonly used in European languages and not other, non-Latin characters? This is just pushing the problem around.) | ||
| * Additional thoughts: just moving from ASCII to UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 and HTML or XML) leaves us with dependencies on the local file systems and processors to be configured properly and do the right thing with the document though adding a byte-order mark (BOM) to the beginning of each non-HTML UTF-8 text file will go a long way towards recognition; | * Additional thoughts: just moving from ASCII to UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 and HTML or XML) leaves us with dependencies on the local file systems and processors to be configured properly and do the right thing with the document though adding a byte-order mark (BOM) to the beginning of each non-HTML UTF-8 text file will go a long way towards recognition; | ||
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