comments on the draft - 2

[Peter Constable]

John Cowan wrote:

> > 3.1: Re the registration form: Is there some IETF policy that
restricts
> > us to ask only for the native name of a language *transcribed into
> > ASCII*?
> 
> Pretty much.  IETF documents are still rather firmly ASCII.  The
question of
> whether this restriction has now had its day is a plenary one which
this
> list can't resolve.

But note how I asked the question? Any reason why the native name in
it's native script couldn't be included using a transfer encoding syntax
like UTF-7 or whatever the spec is (punycode?) for IDNs? The
representation in the registration would still be in terms of ASCII
characters.


Peter
 
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division