Very tantalising! What characters needed by French are missing from Latin-1?
And which are the "most used" languages you refer to? English and Portuguese? Cheers - rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoine Leca Sent: September 29, 2004 7:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: internationalization assumption On Tuesday, September 28th, 2004 03:22 "Tom" wrote: > > Let's say. The test engineer ensures the functionality and validates > the input and output on major Latin 1 languages, such as German, > French, Spanish, Italian, Just a side point: French cannot be fully addressed with Latin 1. Of course, it is good enough for things like say order entry (since all the keyboards do not provide access to the "missing" letters), but if you care about i18n, it is probably not good enough. Also, it strikes me that the test engineer validates "major Latin 1 languages" but yet misses the most used of them. > If those products handle all languages as addressed above, could it be > assumed that the entire character sets in whole latin 1 Probably not. About every language has its peculiarities (which is a good reason to have validated platforms instead of trying to validate products one by one). For example, in Catalan, we have special rules for hyphenating "*" (which is a Latin1 character, present on the keyboards); I am sure there are other special rules for other languages, too; in fact, I am sure that there is no product nor any platform that can claim to support *all* such rules, so there are always limits. Antoine
