Glenn Maynard wrote on 2002-05-10 22:27 UTC: > Getting Unicode accepted in Japan is a problem that affects Linux users, > and Windows is one major cause. Ignoring it isn't an option.
I have found some ways of lobbying for specific technical issues within Microsoft and sometimes manage to get directly in contact with the relevant developers in Redmond. Some of the issues I am currently lobbying for are listed on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ I'd be happy to add the yen/backslash issue to this list. However, I will need someone who writes me a detailed report and analysis of this issue and presents a well-formulated case for why current practice is wrong, what exactly should be changed, and how exactly this will benefit Microsoft and its users. If what you propose breaks backwards compatibility with older Microsoft products, then please discuss a plausible migration strategy as well. Note that even though an individual developer might be sympathetic to your arguments, he/she will still have to face an uphill battle with their managers, colleagues and customer support people to get this change accepted by the team, and your report should prepare them well with arguments, references and background data for this. As an example, look at my report on why Windows should support UTC in the BIOS real-time clock: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html As I'm using neither Shift_JIS nor Windows myself and have seen the JP incarnation of Windows the last time many years ago, I'm not qualified to write this report myself. Any volunteers? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
