RE: DR 09-0045 ¯ WML, Fonts: Character encodings of font names

[Rex Jaeschke]

Given that no one has responded otherwise, I have moved this to Last Call per Chris' suggestion.

Rex


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:41 PM
> To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Cc: Arms, Caroline; francis at franciscave.com
> Subject: RE: DR 09-0045 ― WML, Fonts: Character encodings of font names
> 
> I had a shot at wordsmithing this before I noticed Caroline's reply,
> and I'm delighted to report that our two versions looked eerily
> similar. I've attached what I think will be final changes for this - I
> just changed a couple of words and used "Microsoft Windows" instead of
> "Windows". Final text (also attached) reads:
> 
> --
> Font names stored using this element shall be specified in the encoding
> specified by the Fonts part in its XML declaration; the name of the
> font will be interpreted by the XML parser. [Note: UTF-8 is not
> supported for font names within OpenType fonts, and is not always
> supported for file names in file systems. For example, older Japanese
> versions of Microsoft Windows use Shift JIS for filenames. To use
> extant font names in the values of this attribute, they should be
> converted to the character encoding appropriate for this standard and
> copying raw byte sequences from font files should be avoided. end note]
> --
> 
> Rex, I think we can probably move this one to Last Call without a
> teleconference, given that this was just the production of wording that
> we agreed upon in Tokyo.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arms, Caroline [mailto:caar at loc.gov]
> Sent: 03 November 2010 13:31
> To: francis at franciscave.com
> Cc: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: RE: DR 09-0045 ― WML, Fonts: Character encodings of font names
> 
> I'm with Francis.  Here's my cut at more wordsmithing:
> 
> Font names stored using this element shall be specified in the encoding
> specified by the Fonts part in its XML declaration; the name of the
> font will be interpreted by the XML parser. [Note: UTF-8 is not
> supported for font names within OpenType fonts, and is not always
> supported for file names in file systems. For example, older Japanese
> versions of Windows use Shift JIS for filenames. To use extant font
> names in the values of this attribute, they should be converted to the
> character encoding appropriate for this standard and copying raw byte
> sequences from font files should be avoided. end note]
> 
>    Caroline
> 
> Caroline Arms
> Library of Congress Contractor
> Co-compiler of Sustainability of Digital Formats resource
> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/
> 
> ** Views expressed are personal and not necessarily those of the
> institution ** ________________________________________
> From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) [eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:11 AM
> To: francis at franciscave.com
> Cc: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org; mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
> Subject: Re: DR 09-0045 ― WML, Fonts: Character encodings of font names
> 
> Old Windows used Shift JIS for file names.
> 
> Cheers,
> Makoto
> 
> > I'm not sure that I understand what is meant by "to localize the file
> > systems". Is this clear to others, or is some more wordsmithing
> needed here?
>