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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: [OT] Standards (was Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to
 ISO8859-1)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:22:10 +0100
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On 26.02.2025 09:52, David Brown wrote:
> On 26/02/2025 07:38, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>>
>> [*] The colloquial terminology is sometimes quite fuzzy though; e.g.
>> the *.doc format was often named "de facto standard", but there was
>> a long period of time neither a public document of that "standard"
>> nor was it a standard in the first place; the proprietary format
>> changed silently while the extension (and folks calling the format
>> a "standard") stayed.
> 
> In that particular example, the colloquial use of the term "standard"
> was very far from the technical term! 

Yes, that is true. Nonetheless some folks foster "parallel facts"
and we need to dispute with them.[*]

> And even after Microsoft bribed
> and bullied their way into getting docx format ratified as an ISO
> standard, they never actually followed their own "standard" very closely
> in their own software.

Oh, I didn't know that. (I actually haven't followed MS policy the
last decades.)

Janis

[*] Particularly bad if such folks belong to the management... - I
better not start complaining...