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

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:38:06 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

... 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 ...

That is still the case.

If you are trying to suggest that ISO 29500 (Microsoft’s “OOXML”) is in
any way a proper workable standard, then you haven’t read it.