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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2681) Should openformulaevaluators be *required* to support BMP or all Unicode/10646 characters?



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David Wheeler  commented on OFFICE-2681:
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Sorry, I didn't notice that this had already been opened.

I'm going to close this, as it is a duplicate (DUP) of the already-opened:
http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2672


> Should openformula evaluators be *required* to support BMP or all Unicode/10646 characters?
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-2681
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2681
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OpenFormula
>            Reporter: David Wheeler 
>            Assignee: David Wheeler 
>
> Part 2 (OpenFormula) section 3.2 "Text:" says:
> "A text value (also called a string value) is a sequence of zero or more characters.  
> Evaluators should accept [UNICODE] strings, but shall accept strings of ASCII (Unicode U+0020 through U+007F, inclusive) characters."
> Some commenters on the open comment list believe there should be a stronger requirement:
>  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/201005/msg00002.html
> Certainly from a *user* point of view a stronger requirement would be nice.
> Two basic questions:
> 1. Should the required character set supported by the evaluator at run-time be increased,
>     and if so, to what (BMP or all Unicode/10646)?
> 2. Under what conditions should they be increased?
>     (All implementations? Only those of medium group or up?
>      Maybe require BMP in medium group, and all characters in large group?)
> This is related to:
>  http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2663
> I'd like implementors to briefly respond with comments to *THIS* JIRA comment,
> noting what they can support and if there are major "gotchas".
> For example, can everyone support evaluating BMP or all Unicode characters
> at formula runtime *regardless* of the user's locale setting
> (I'm concerned this may be an issue for Excel)?
> Can everyone handle arbitrary characters, or is anyone limited to BMP
> (our 16-bit-char friends can end up with this problem)?
> If anyone is limited, is this a stumblingblock?
> I have a particular concern for the implementations that use 16-bit-chars internally.
> If you're given a character that is not in the BMP, what do FIND, LEFT, etc. do?
> Do they simply presume (incorrectly) that all chars are in the BMP, and thus you can
> cut out have a character?  Or do they count "correctly" to the right character?
> Systems that use UTF-8 internally presumably do this correctly, since they
> have to "count" to get to the right characters anyway, but I'd like to know if that's
> NOT true for anyone.

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