Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 19:14:53 EST

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    At 15:38 -0800 2003-12-03, Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote:

    >I am encouraging QA to test MES-1 with UTF-8 instead of only ISO-8859-1.
    >I am encouraging product ship with MES-1 support out of the box instead
    >of ISO-8859-1.
    >And if QA wrote their test plan by using UTF-8 and MES-1 and product
    >claim to supprt MES-1, how far it could be away from "even if not
    >fully implemented and quality assured in the first release."

    MES-1 is hopelessly archaic. It's ISO 6937. MES-2 would be the only
    miminum I could recommend for Europe. And it's not good enough
    either, which is why MES-3 is block based.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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