It would be intereting and helpful to be able to find out if a product is Unicode-compliant before purchasing it. There are various test institutions out there that perform that work for other standards. I don't think it would be Unicode.org's responsibility to provide for the certification, to avoid membership issues, maybe it should create the certification requirements, though.
I find myself wasting a lot of time figuring out if a third-party product or a certain version can handle Unicode and/or up to which version it is compliant to. I would like to be able to see a little Unicode logo on a box stamped with a release number, making it the manufacturer's responsibility to prove it. It works for operating system releases and other stuff, why not here as well? Dave --- "David J. Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that it's very wise of the Unicode Consortium not to certify > or > officially promote any particular implementation. After all, some > programmers are more skilled than others, and some implementations > may > not be of the quality one might wish. Or what if a member company > produced a decent implementation, but the competing product by a > small, > non-member company was better? This could be a real mess. The > Unicode > web site does have a list of Unicode-enabled products (I'm not sure > how > complete it is), which is helpful and appropriate--but I wouldn't > want > to see anything beyond that. > > David > ===== Dave Possin Globalization Consultant www.Welocalize.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
