China's Open Document Format Fight

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."

Comments

waytoomanycommas

[peipas]

It's hard, to read submissions, when there, are so, many, commas.

Re:waytoomanycommas

[Eddi3]

That was, at the very most, a half assed at humor. There are, in fact, ways to add, not only too many commas, but enough to make, say, your head, or mine, explode upon reading the sentence, phrase, etc.

Not only that, but you can, unbelievably, even use lots of commas, while maintaining mostly, although maybe not entirely, correct punctuation.

-Eddie

Re:Here on Slashdot, the enemy of my enemy

[yuda]

>Open Source and China? Strange bed fellows indeed.

Why not? I thought they were both communist plots?

Re:Standards

[morcego]

What Internet standards do they support properly?

Their implementation of TFTP is flawless :)

Hint: The whole RFC is 2 pages long.