China's Open Document Format Fight 118
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eldavojohn writes "While there's been a lot of talk of the open document formats in the states, China is facing the same dilemma. A ZDNet blog examines the issue by pointing out they will most likely merge their current standard with either OOXML or ODF. The bulk of their post points out why OOXML shouldn't be ISO certified and is the biggest problem for Microsoft's standard: 'Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses. Consequently, OOXML does not support, to use Chinese characters within a Web address.' This would be problematic for many languages, not just Chinese."
Re:google CJKV (Score:1, Informative)
Re:google CJKV (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cannot Merge With OOXML (Score:1, Informative)
ODF 1.1 (focussing mainly on accessibility extensions) was released last year and became the current and official OASIS version last February.
Re:Standards (Score:3, Informative)
> What Internet standards do they support properly?
Why don't you read the RFC mentioned here (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt) and see who the author is. The problem is lots of legacy software and standards that expect all users to only use ascii.
Re:Unicode URLs (Score:2, Informative)
Perhaps slightly off topic but they also use bar codes a lot, they can scan them with their cell phone and immediately be brought to that web site. You will see them on advertisements, websites, magazines, etc but they don't look like US style bar codes, they are square in shape and made up of lots of little squares inside. Cell phones are huge in Japan, they are used for everything and just walking around you see people typing away on them like crazy.