From: "Raymond Mercier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kenneth Whistler writes, replying to Philippe > > This kind of long-winded harangue about how Microsoft should manage its > > business is OT for this list and is generally insulting to the Microsoft > > participants as well. Please take it elsewhere and do not bother the > > Unicode list with your management plans for Microsoft's internal > > business. > > It is all very well to mock Philippe, but IE6 fails badly if it cannot even > display CJK(A) in UTF8, something Mozilla does perfectly well. If there are > Microsoft participants in this list perhaps they could explain this failure. > Broadly speaking I am pro-Microsoft, but this behaviour in IE6 reflects > badly on them.
And my comment here was not about Microsoft should manage its business but about what it has done (or not done) since several years. The adoption of GB18030 should have been one additional motivation to add or correct the missing support. Windows 2000 is already 5 years old, and Windows XP 3 years old, and still nothing available there. Microsoft can choose whatever business strategies it wants, but still users will just see what is missing since long in Windows, and will blame Microsoft for not doing this for Windows. In a world where IE represents more then 90% of browsers, this is a serious issue for international website designers, and this does not favor the adoption and use of characters out of the BMP. Microsoft could claim that this has no immediate economical value, but for all web designers this absence of correct support is a source of additional costs, and the source of costly heterogeneous solutions, code incompatibilities, and costly support requests.
