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  1. OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
  2. OFFICE-3496

OpenFormula Conformance Clause 2.2.2(I) Seems Misplaced

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    • Proposal:
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      1. Remove 2.2.2(I) entirely.

      2. If there is a need to say something about required character set support beyond what is resolved in host-dependent behavior, it should probably be in 2.2.1.

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      1. Remove 2.2.2(I) entirely. 2. If there is a need to say something about required character set support beyond what is resolved in host-dependent behavior, it should probably be in 2.2.1.
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      Remove 2.2.2(I) entirely.

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      Remove 2.2.2(I) entirely.

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      In the Conformance Clause for Small Group Evaluators, there is this particular clause 2.2.2(I):

      """
      I)It shall support international characters for named expression identifiers.
      Note: This specification does not mandate a user interface for international characters, so a resource-constrained application may choose to not show the traditional glyph (e.g., it may show the [UNICODE] numeric code instead).
      """

      Problem #1: The Note is not about OpenFormula evaluators but what a hosting-specification and its implementations might provide for. The note should be removed, especially since it includes normative-provision language ("may").

      Problem #2: "international characters" is not a defined concept. The syntax for named expression identifiers seems to be quite explicit. Although there are many notes in section 5.11, there is a potential conflict with the rules for case-sensitive names that must not be case-insensitive confused and some other non-note provisions.

      Problem #3: The resolution of named expressions is clearly a host-dependent behavior (and the host-dependent behaviors that are tacit in section 5.11 need to be made explicitly host-dependent and simplified), so which uses of Unicode characters match with host-provided named expressions need not be resolved here.

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              orcmid Dennis Hamilton (Inactive)
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              orcmid Dennis Hamilton (Inactive)
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