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ASCII Escaping of Unicode Characters
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Date Rev. By Action
2012-08-22
07 (System) post-migration administrative database adjustment to the Yes position for Jari Arkko
2008-01-03
07 Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Ed Queue from Approved-announcement sent by Amy Vezza
2007-12-19
07 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to Approved-announcement sent
2007-12-19
07 Amy Vezza IESG has approved the document
2007-12-19
07 Amy Vezza Closed "Approve" ballot
2007-12-19
07 (System) IANA Action state changed to No IC from In Progress
2007-12-19
07 (System) IANA Action state changed to In Progress
2007-11-30
07 (System) Removed from agenda for telechat - 2007-11-29
2007-11-29
07 Amy Vezza State Changes to Approved-announcement to be sent from IESG Evaluation by Amy Vezza
2007-11-29
07 (System) [Ballot Position Update] New position, yes, has been recorded for Sam Hartman by IESG Secretary
2007-11-29
07 David Ward [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by David Ward
2007-11-29
07 Dan Romascanu [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Dan Romascanu
2007-11-29
07 Mark Townsley [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Mark Townsley
2007-11-29
07 Jon Peterson [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Jon Peterson
2007-11-28
07 Ross Callon [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Ross Callon
2007-11-28
07 Lisa Dusseault [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded by Lisa Dusseault
2007-11-28
07 Tim Polk [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Tim Polk
2007-11-28
07 Ron Bonica [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Ron Bonica
2007-11-28
07 Magnus Westerlund [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Magnus Westerlund
2007-11-28
07 Cullen Jennings [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Cullen Jennings
2007-11-27
07 Russ Housley [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Russ Housley
2007-11-27
07 Lars Eggert [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Lars Eggert
2007-11-26
07 Jari Arkko [Ballot Position Update] Position for Jari Arkko has been changed to Yes from Discuss by Jari Arkko
2007-11-26
07 Jari Arkko
[Ballot discuss]
This an issue I wanted to raise in order to have a discussion -- but I am keen to move back fast to …
[Ballot discuss]
This an issue I wanted to raise in order to have a discussion -- but I am keen to move back fast to a Yes position, as this is a great document overall.

> This recommendation is not applicable to protocols that already
> accept native UTF-8 or some other encoding of Unicode.  In general,
> when protocols are internationalized, it is preferable to accept
> those forms rather than using escapes.

This is interesting. The reasons for escapes go beyond merely being able to input characters not supported by the end system. For instance, the space character is often escaped in URLs. Wouldn't this still be needed even with Unicode?
2007-11-26
07 Jari Arkko [Ballot Position Update] New position, Discuss, has been recorded by Jari Arkko
2007-11-21
07 Chris Newman [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Chris Newman
2007-11-21
07 Chris Newman Ballot has been issued by Chris Newman
2007-11-21
07 Chris Newman Created "Approve" ballot
2007-11-21
07 Chris Newman Placed on agenda for telechat - 2007-11-29 by Chris Newman
2007-11-21
07 Chris Newman State Changes to IESG Evaluation from Waiting for AD Go-Ahead by Chris Newman
2007-11-17
07 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-07.txt
2007-11-15
07 (System) State has been changed to Waiting for AD Go-Ahead from In Last Call by system
2007-11-14
07 Samuel Weiler Request for Last Call review by SECDIR Completed. Reviewer: Pasi Eronen.
2007-10-22
07 Amanda Baber IANA Last Call comments:

As described in the IANA Considerations section, we understand this document
to have NO IANA Actions.
2007-10-19
07 Samuel Weiler Request for Last Call review by SECDIR is assigned to Pasi Eronen
2007-10-19
07 Samuel Weiler Request for Last Call review by SECDIR is assigned to Pasi Eronen
2007-10-18
07 Amy Vezza Last call sent
2007-10-18
07 Amy Vezza State Changes to In Last Call from Last Call Requested by Amy Vezza
2007-10-18
07 Chris Newman Last Call was requested by Chris Newman
2007-10-18
07 Chris Newman State Changes to Last Call Requested from Publication Requested by Chris Newman
2007-10-18
07 (System) Ballot writeup text was added
2007-10-18
07 (System) Last call text was added
2007-10-18
07 (System) Ballot approval text was added
2007-10-18
07 Chris Newman Draft Added by Chris Newman in state Publication Requested
2007-10-11
06 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-06.txt
2007-10-05
05 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-05.txt
2007-10-04
04 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-04.txt
2007-02-23
03 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-03.txt
2007-02-07
02 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-02.txt
2007-01-29
01 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-01.txt
2007-01-18
00 (System) New version available: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt