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China's Open Document Format Fight

Posted by Zonk on from the open-docs-around-the-world dept.

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."

3 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. Re:ching chong chang by Ant+P. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I agree, the Internet should be English-only. I'm also sick of these illiterate, retarded Americans getting on it without even so much as a high school diploma in English.

  2. Re:different characters? by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Silly me. I thought that if OOXML gets an ISO certification it doesn't prove anything other than that they know more about standards than you.

    Yep, silly you. You assume the truth of Y and blandly state "if X then Y". While Y is expected to be true, OOXML requires reproduction of all the bugs that have ever shipped in MS Office so (X xor Y) is invariably true. A true value for X would most likely be attributable to corruption of the standards body by Microsoft, so Y would be false in that case. So your statement is a false one.

  3. Re:Standards by Reemi · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    VTP.

    Okay, it is not a widely recognised standard but their implementation of the Virus Transport Protocol (VTP) is perfect.