____/ Linonut on Monday 03 September 2007 21:51 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Brazil votes against Open XML
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Among the issues cited are lack of compatibility with the Gregorian
>> | calendar, lack of support for languages such as Chinese, Japanese and
>> | Korean, and security issues including the possibility of password breaches
>> | and vulnerability to viruses.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/41c10c11-2ee9-4052-ba6c-93026ca1b1d4.html
>
> Is this really true:
>
> Among the issues cited are lack of compatibility with the Gregorian
> calendar, lack of support for languages such as Chinese, Japanese and
> Korean, ...
>
> If so, get OOXML the fuck out of ISO.
Of course. China cited this as a reason a long time ago. This is not a standard
really. It's a bunch of programmers in the 80s hacking on code rather than
looking at existing standards, e.g. for date formatting. To this date,
Microsoft's formats are a sordid mess with specs like "DoTabsLikeWord97"
or "EmulateWordPerfect". This is 2007! What an inelegant mess.
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