> 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. I'm also a firm believer in UTF-8 only. This is an example of insanity, having so many different encodings. But please let's not talk about that one here.
> 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?) That's how I feel. It's trivial and highly benefical. Not everyone would benefit because most people never directly look at SGF. However it's supposed to be human readable friendly and this is a no-brainer. - Don > Ian > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
