<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I have already published some RFCs containing non-ASCII characters (but not yet RTL text). See for instance RFC 8265.<div><br></div><div>Peter<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from mobile, might be terse </div><div><br>On May 11, 2018, at 7:05 AM, Andrew Sullivan <<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 8pt 0;">On May 11, 2018 05:17:31 Andre Schappo <<a href="mailto:A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk">A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</p>
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My experience of RFCs is that they are ASCII and that makes it rather difficult to give Arabic examples.
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<div class="">The last thing I encountered is <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc7997.pdf" class="">https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc7997.pdf</a> which proposes usage of Unicode UTF-8 instead of ASCII</div>
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<div class="">What is the current state of play for using Unicode UTF8 in RFCs?</div>
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<div class="">On 10 May 2018, at 19:30, Andrew Sullivan <<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" class="">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Andrew, is this possible? If so, how do we go about getting such underway?<br class="">
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Write an Internet-Draft and upload it to the Internet-Drafts<br class="">
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The first trick is to get the I-D written, though. There are a lot of<br class="">
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<a href="https://github.com/miekg/pandoc2rfc/" class="">https://github.com/miekg/pandoc2rfc/</a><br class="">
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