From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 20:05:25 EST
As long as a product support UTF-8 and pass the test with MES-1, I can
pretty sure that no code in between strip off any non ISO-8859-1
characters, regardless they support MES-2 or MES-3.
Of course, that does not guarantee surrogate characters won't get
damanaged, but just as someone believe, it will be <1% of efforts for me
to fix it later, right? :)
Michael Everson wrote:
> 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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