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The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs
RFC 7997

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2020-10-28
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2020-03-30
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'In order to support the internationalization of protocols and a more diverse Internet community, the RFC …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to '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 required language of the Series, the encoding of future RFCs will be in UTF-8, allowing for a broader range of characters than typically used in the English language. This document describes the RFC Editor requirements and gives guidance regarding the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.

This document updates RFC 7322. Please view this document in PDF form to see the full text.')
2016-12-16
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 7997, changed abstract to 'In order to support the internationalization of protocols and a more …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 7997, changed abstract to '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 required language of the Series, the encoding of future RFCs will be in UTF-8, allowing for a broader range of characters than typically used in the English language. This document describes the RFC Editor requirements and gives guidance regarding the use of non-ASCII characters in RFCs.', changed pages to 15, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2016-12-16, changed IAB state to Published RFC, created updates relation between draft-iab-rfc-nonascii and RFC 7322)
2016-12-16
(System) RFC published