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

On 27/02/2025 22:51, bart wrote:

 A shame you can't say the same for Libreoffice itself. I've had it on my machine for a while but it was normally used to print stuff originating elsewhere.
 When I tried to actually type stuff in directly, it had such a poor response time as to be unusable. That is, you typed a bunch of text, but nothing appeared on the screen for a second or so, then it comes all at once. All options that might slow it down had been disabled; still slow.
 I haven't used MS Office on the same machine; could it actually be faster? That sounds difficult to believe of an MS product, but it's hard to see how it could be any slower!

We are getting /really/ off-topic now (that's as much my fault as anyone else's), so I'll be brief.
No, LibreOffice is not particularly slow on most systems - but it /is/ a big program.  If your system is old and weak, and in particular if it has very little ram, then it will of course be slow.  With a very old computer, an older version of LibreOffice could be more efficient - like most well-managed open source projects, old versions are easily available.
MS Office of similar generation is of similar size, weight and inefficiency as LibreOffice.  On many systems it appears to start faster, but that is just because it is often started automatically before any files are opened.
While I prefer LaTeX for serious documentation (and markdown / pandoc for small stuff), I sometimes need a more standard word processor or spreadsheet.  I've used LibreOffice from its ancestor Star Office - I haven't had MS Office on a computer since Word For Windows 2.0 on Windows 3.1.