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 > -- -- Frank Yung-Fong Tang ÅÃÅtÃm ÃrÃhÃtÃÃt, IÃtÃrnÃtiÃnÃl DÃvÃlÃpmeÃt, AOL IntÃrÃÃtÃvà SÃrviÃes AIM:yungfongta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:650-937-2913 Yahoo! Msg: frankyungfongtan
