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Subject: RE: [office-comment] Text in OpenFormula - inadequate forinternational use
David hi > There are at least two encodings: > * Encodings of text at rest (stored in a document), which are handled > by XML > * Encodings of text when stored in memory, inside an evaluator. This > may not be, and is often NOT, the same. If an implementation uses 32 > bits per character, then it can do easy random access. I don't know > of any implementations that do this, but instead do all sorts of weird stuff. How an implementation internally encodes its text is surely a technical detail out-of-scope for OpenFormula. Implementers will use their language's built-in Unicode support or a library like http://site.icu-project.org/ Granted it can be a bit of extra work to support Unicode (especially above the BMP), but if and when OpenFormula is submitted to become an International Standard there are two areas where I think the "it's too hard to make mandatory" argument will get nowhere. One is accessibility, the other is internationalized functionality. - Alex. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
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