- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:09:25 +0100
- To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: jeffbrower0@gmail.com, fielding@gbiv.com, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Murray Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, tpauly@apple.com, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Am 14.11.2020 um 19:52 schrieb John R. Levine:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 06:27:58PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>> Notes
>>>> -----
>>>> The generated PDF contains misleading right and left quotes (U+8217 and
>>>> U+8216), which are not ASCII characters. The text and html versions
>>>> of the
>>>> RFC have the correct apostrophe and grave accent characters (' and `).
>
> That PDF was generated mechanically from the definitive text RFC. We
> use a generic text to PDF converter (I can check which one) and it's not
> surprising that it uses heuristics to guess which kind of quote to use,
> nor is it surprising that it sometimes guesses wrong in technical text.
> ...
FWIW: we should check what tool is doing that, and whether we can stop
it from trying to be "smart".
> ...
Best regards, Julian
Received on Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:09:43 UTC