Suggestions for the "ICU Converter Explorer" Table

[Dorsey Drane]

1. You should identify which version the data is derived from (currently
2.6.d01?)

2. It would be nice to post tables for older releases. Very few people are
using 2.6.d01 yet; I'm using 2.4, the current official release. Yet a table
is no longer available for 2.4.

3. Please add some simple verbiage explaining these standard names:
UTR22
IBM
WINDOWS
JAVA
IANA
MIME
Untagged Aliases
All Aliases
For instance, I'm using ICU on Linux(ia32), AIX, Solaris, and HPUX. Is "All
Aliases" the appropriate standard for me to specify?

3. Please, please, please add a "Description" column to the table which
provides simple English-language descriptions of each converter. I had to
email icu-support to learn the differences between the UTF-16, UTF-16BE and
UTF-16LE converters. (I thought UTF-16 was identical to one of the other
two, depending on endianess of the platform.)

Thanks,
- Dorsey

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Dorsey Drane/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
IBM Systems Group (ISG), on site at IBM Austin, TX
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[George Rhoten]

The bottom of the page describes what version Converter Explorer is using,
and it says 2.6.

In the upper right corner, you will notice a help link. Does that help
text help you, or does it need more information?

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU San Jose, CA, USA




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[Dorsey Drane]

George,
Thank you for these pointers. They help greatly. May I then substitute
my suggestions with these?

1. You should identify which version the data is derived from more
prominently, say at the top of the page.

2. It would be nice to post tables for older releases. Very few people
are using 2.6.d01 yet; I'm using 2.4, the current official release.
Yet a table is no longer available for 2.4.

3. Somewhere, possibly on the ICU Converter Explorer Help page, the
types of converters should be defined. Maybe this information would
be better located with the ucnv_getType() documentation. There, the
enum values are listed, but not defined.

Thanks again,
- Dorsey





George Rhoten
To: Dorsey Drane/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
05/23/2003 04:42 cc: icu-ch...@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com
PM From: George Rhoten/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS
Subject: Re: Suggestions for the "ICU Converter Explorer" Table(Document
link: Dorsey Drane)

The bottom of the page describes what version Converter Explorer is using,
and it says 2.6.

In the upper right corner, you will notice a help link. Does that help
text help you, or does it need more information?

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU San Jose, CA, USA



Dorsey Drane/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS

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