Re: MES-1 deficient

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 12:21:50 EST


Van Wingen insisted that the MES-1 be nothing more than ISO 6937 +
Icelandic and euro symbol support. Apparently this is because he doesn't
want the Netherlands police system to upgrade very much, but that's just a
guess.

Most of us (i.e. the members of the Workshop) preferred the MES-3, which is
full Unicode support for the scripts of Europe. It doesn't do anyone any
good to complain about what the Workshop came up with; CWA 13873 is what it
came up with, for good or for ill.

Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie
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