Internet Engineering Task Force                         H. Flanagan, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                RFC Editor
Intended status: Informational                              July 4, 2014
Expires: January 5, 2015


                The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs
                       draft-flanagan-nonascii-02

Abstract

   In order to support the internationalization of protocols and a more
   diverse Internet community, the RFC Series must evolve to allow for
   the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.  While English remains the
   accepted language of the Series, the encoding of future RFCs will be
   in UTF-8.  This document describes the RFC Editor requirements and
   guidance regarding the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.

   This document updates the RFC Style Guide [I-D.iab-styleguide].

   Please review the PDF or HTML versions of this draft to see the full
   text, examples, and references.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

1.  Introduction

   In order to support the internationalization of protocols and a more
   diverse Internet community, the RFC Series must evolve to allow for
   the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.  While English remains the
   accepted language of the Series, the encoding of future RFCs will be
   in UTF-8.  This document describes the RFC Editor requirements and
   guidance regarding the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.

   Please review the PDF or HTML versions of this draft to see the full
   text, examples, and references.

2.  References

   [I-D.iab-styleguide]
              Flanagan, H., "RFC Style Guide", draft-iab-styleguide-02
              (work in progress), April 2014.

Author's Address

   Heather Flanagan (editor)
   RFC Editor

   Email: rse@rfc-editor.org
   URI:   http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-2220













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