What is used in Asia? Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster
----- Original Message ---- From: Ian Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:26:25 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] XML alternatives to SGF On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > Much of the discussion in this thread has focused very narrowly on > using an XML format to replace SGF, I believe that if an XML format is > to take off, it should offer capabilities beyond what are possible in > SGF, conversion to XML for XMLs sake is pointless. Possibilities > include: > > * A method for presenting translated comments, i.e. the same comments > in different languages, so a program can display only the appropriate > ones. > > cheers > stuart I'm surprised no one has brought up an obvious benefit of XML: well defined character encoding. A prime weakness of SGF is its unspecified character encoding. I thought that SGF is not well accepted in Asia due to this limitation. Re: coordinate normalization. This seems really trivial to me, easily something that could be incorporated as an option into the existing SGF standard. The code change would be minor. (I also presume that any proposal would retain the quirk of skipping the letter "i" in the horizontal coordinates?) Ian _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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