Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

From: Brendan Murray/DUB/Lotus (Brendan_Murray@Lotus.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 15:53:00 EDT


"J. P." <emd0021@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How have you sold your EXECUTIVES on the perils of
> this READY-FIRE-AIM mentality?

It sounds strange that executive management a) would be interested in this
level of detail and b) would make such a decision without expert input.

The simple answer is cost: you can implement your system(s) so that you
have no simple way of interoperating across platforms and locales, but
that's very expensive, and very error-prone. Alternatively, you can have it
all in Unicode, where you can run exactly the same on all platforms and
locales, with only user-interfaces being in a platform encoding
(sometimes).

                           
 Brendan Murray
 Software Architect,
 International Product
 Division
 Lotus Development
 Corporation
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 Murray/Dub/Lotus@Lotus
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 brendan_murray@lotus.com
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