From alb@sct.gouv.qc.ca Mon Oct 14 02:43:20 1996 Received: from socrate.riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA22324; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 02:43:18 +0100 Received: from riq-128-34.riq.qc.ca by socrate.riq.qc.ca (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AD25183; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:46:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:46:24 -0400 Message-Id: <9610140146.AD25183@socrate.riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@riq.qc.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: Eudora Light pour Windows Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Michel Suignard , "'brannon@isocs.iso.ch'" , "'sc18wg9@dkuug.dk'" , "'sc22wg20@dkuug.dk'" From: "Alain LaBont/e'/" Subject: Re: (SC22WG20.1658) RE: Personal contribution to ISO/IEC on some problems with WinWordor RTF formats for ISO/IEC electronic document distribution At 16:31 1996-10-10 -0700, Michel Suignard wrote: >I routinely exchange documents with >Japanese collegues using their Japanese version without problems. Michel, do you use the Japanese version yourself ? (Because I do not work at Microsoft, this is almost impossible for me). Last Friday, a Japanese colleague gave me a text produced on a Japanese version of Word. I kept it (I can send it to you if you wish). I can't read it with the French version of Word. It says "unrecognizable format". I asked him to redo it in RTF format. Since it was a plain English document, we did not have a font problem. This I could read without any difficulty indeed. But it delayed things. And would there have been a need for a specific font, we would not have been warned that we were doing something "wrong". That said, this should be seen as an encouragement to Microsoft to find solutions. I tried to be correct in my contribution, conscious that I may also be wrong. I am confident that all these problems will be much less of an issue in 10 years. Already the support of the UCS by Word as a native character set in the near future will be a considerable improvement that will at least solve most of the character integrity problems in practice (right now fonts are confused with characters in Word, but the trend will completely eliminate this problem, hopefully). Alain LaBonté