Marcus wrote "By golly, isn't it about time that it starts accepting AT LEAST, at a minimum, ALL special characters of Western civilizations???"
Yes, first it should accept western civilizations and then eastern civilizations. We are sending letters to different countries in 7 languages. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese & Russian and it is handled natively in Crystal Reports through MS-Word OLE object. At the end of year 2000 only 20 % of the internet content in languages other than English. Slowly this will increase. Madan --- Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:19:03 -0800 > From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [USMA:19120] Re: typo > Organization: Angelfire > (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) > > Very true, Jim. However, an upgrade to a newer > better-standardized MIME version would automatically > affect all those who would move to that version and > there would be no need for... "bickering" of any > type. That's why "imposing" standards this way is a > lot more efficient. Those not upgrading would pass > up on a very valuable opportunity to fix this type > of difficulty. > > This is akin to systems accepting new > functionalities offered by newer versions of things > like HTML and so forth. Besides, this would not > involve forgoing anything, just adding "new > features". Who could ever be against a move like > that? > > Marcus > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:07:57 > James R. Frysinger wrote: > >Ma Be wrote: > >> > >> No problem, Bill. > >> > >> Your last comment below reminded me of another > very annoying issue that still upsets me greatly. > It's absolutely atrocious that we still haven't > addressed the issue of special characters properly > in the last versions of MIME. By golly, isn't it > about time that it starts accepting AT LEAST, at a > minimum, ALL special characters of Western > civilizations??? This really infuriates me! > >> > >> Also, it's utterly unacceptable that they do not > tackle the superscript/subscript issue, either. How > long will we still have to wait till computers catch > up with us, humans?... :-( > >> > >> NOTE: And not that it would be so terribly > difficult to implement such changes... > > > > If there's one thing that my work on standards has > taught me, it's that > >universal agreement and compliance is incredibly > difficult. It's not the > >technology that is the problem, it's the people and > the variety of > >opinions they hold, couple with the variety of > options they possess. > > > > To make something so standard that it's routinely > available without > >thought or effort, one must either have > monopolistic control or have an > >idea that has no conflicting alternatives. Even > with Microsoft's alleged > >95 % of the market, look at how much difficulty > there is in sharing > >documents between Windows and MacOS systems! > > > >Jim > > > >-- > >Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to > metricate!" > >James R. Frysinger, CAMS > http://www.metricmethods.com/ > >10 Captiva Row e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: > 843.225.6789 > > > > > See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar > http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/
