Re: [OT] Standards (was Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1)

On 26.02.2025 09:52, David Brown wrote:

On 26/02/2025 07:38, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

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[*] The colloquial terminology is sometimes quite fuzzy though; e.g.
the *.doc format was often named "de facto standard", but there was
a long period of time neither a public document of that "standard"
nor was it a standard in the first place; the proprietary format
changed silently while the extension (and folks calling the format
a "standard") stayed.

 
In that particular example, the colloquial use of the term "standard"
was very far from the technical term!

Yes, that is true. Nonetheless some folks foster "parallel facts"
and we need to dispute with them.[*]

And even after Microsoft bribed
and bullied their way into getting docx format ratified as an ISO
standard, they never actually followed their own "standard" very closely
in their own software.

Oh, I didn't know that. (I actually haven't followed MS policy the
last decades.)

Janis

[*] Particularly bad if such folks belong to the management... - I
better not start complaining...