OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  External References in most recent OpenFormula draft

    Posted 01-29-2010 15:39
    Hi,
    
    as said in an earlier mail, I started to update the normative and
    non-normative references in the OpenFormula specification, and have made
    the necessary adaptations to the bibliographic indexes and their
    locations in the document.
    
    However, there are a few items left open:
    
    1. OpenFormula references Unicode 5.2. That's okay, but Part 1 actually
    references Unicode 4.0. Since it appears not to be reasonable to
    reference two different versions of Unicode, I suggest that we change 
    the reference in part 1 also to Unicode 5.2.
    
    2. The descriptions of JIS contains links to:
    http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0201.TXT
    http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0208.TXT
    
    They appear to be non normative, but do we really need them? Or would it 
    be an option to move them into the annotations? I'm asking because of 
    the "OBSOLETE" in the URI.
    
    3. The description of ASC contains the two links:
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/columns/019/default.mspx#EED
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/dbcs/932.htm
    
    Do we need the two? The first one does not work any longer. The 2nd one 
    is redirected, and on the resulting page there is just a (YEN SIGN) 
    behind the description of character 5C. That seems to be very little 
    information to justify a non normative reference, and I would like to 
    move the link into the annotations, too.
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael
    
    
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  • 2.  Re: [office] External References in most recent OpenFormula draft

    Posted 02-02-2010 14:57
    Hi Michael,
    
    On Friday, 2010-01-29 16:38:44 +0100, Michael Brauer wrote:
    
    > 2. The descriptions of JIS contains links to:
    > http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0201.TXT
    > http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0208.TXT
    >
    > They appear to be non normative, but do we really need them?
    
    As we define complete mappings for the JIS() and ASC() functions we do
    not necessarily need them, they are there for reference purposes.
    
    > Or would it  be an option to move them into the annotations?
    
    Might be an option.
    
    > I'm asking because of  the "OBSOLETE" in the URI.
    
    The mapping may be defined as well in Unihan_OtherMappings.txt of
    http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.zip
    respectively
    http://unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/ucd/Unihan.zip
    
    I don't know though if and how JIS 0201 and JIS 0208 are related to
    kJis0, kJis1 and kJIS0213 or other encodings defined in that file.
    
    The reference we used at least has clear mappings.
    
    
    > 3. The description of ASC contains the two links:
    > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/columns/019/default.mspx#EED
    > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/dbcs/932.htm
    >
    > Do we need the two? The first one does not work any longer. The 2nd one  
    > is redirected, and on the resulting page there is just a (YEN SIGN)  
    > behind the description of character 5C. That seems to be very little  
    > information to justify a non normative reference, and I would like to  
    > move the link into the annotations, too.
    
    Remove them entirely. The MS dev site is notorious in moving document
    locations around and away and not suited to be used as reference.
    
      Eike
    
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