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.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
