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Re: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:23:29 +0200
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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>>
>> http://nothing-more.blogspot.com/2004/10/where-xml-goes-astray.html
> 
> This article is absolute crap

Seconded on every single aspect.

> The one thing that's mildly interesting in his article is the claim that 
> the Unicode 2.0 character repertoire has caused real problems for some 
> Asian Microsoft customers. I've heard this claim before, but I've never 
> been able to verify it. If he's got real data, I'd like to see it. Which 
> missing characters were needed? And were they really needed in markup 
> and not text? (This is a very common source of confusion.)

And aren't we all in awe of the absolutely massive amount of support 
Microsoft is putting behind supporting the deployment of XML 1.1?

-- 
Robin Berjon

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    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
  • Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>

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