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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:00:49
Message-Id: 20080114175456.f428906d.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode? by Renat Golubchyk
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:13:33 +0100 Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
4 wrote:
5
6 > There is nothing basic about a spreadsheet program. It is a very
7 > advanced piece of software. From a developer's perspective unicode is
8 > an obvious requirement, if he tries to write a program for many
9 > different locales without too much hassle.
10
11 And I can well see myself e.g. inserting greek chars that have some
12 mathematical meaning in my spreadsheets... After all, this isn't
13 Lotus-123 and I don't use a 9-pin-printer anymore...
14
15 And FWIW, SVG (or parts of it and lots of referring definitions) is
16 integrated in the Open Document Format for Office Applications.
17
18 -hwh
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