[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2672) NEEDS-DISCUSSIONPublic Comment: Text in OpenFormula - inadequate for international use

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David Wheeler  commented on OFFICE-2672:
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One resolution is to change
Part 2 (OpenFormula) section 3.2 "Text:" sentence:
"Evaluators should accept [UNICODE] strings, but shall accept strings of ASCII (Unicode U+0020 through U+007F, inclusive) characters."
to:
"Evaluators shall accept, process, and produce all characters as defined in  [UNICODE]."

That's easy to do in the *spec*, the question is, what's the impact on implementations?  Is this a reasonable requirement?
No point in specifying it if no one will do it.


> NEEDS-DISCUSSION Public Comment: Text in OpenFormula - inadequate for international use
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>
>                 Key: OFFICE-2672
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2672
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OpenFormula
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 2
>            Reporter: Robert Weir 
>            Assignee: Andreas Guelzow 
>
> Copied from office-comment list
> Original author: Alex Brown <alexb@griffinbrown.co.uk> 
> Original date: 5 May 2010 10:45:54 -0000
> Original URL: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/201005/msg00002.html

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