Standards compliance in Doar Israel

Standards compliance in Doar Israel

Ira Abramov Lists-Linux-IL at ira.abramov.org
Wed Feb 11 14:03:06 IST 2009


Quoting Dotan Cohen, from the post of Sun, 08 Feb:
> I have to send a document to Doar Israel. I plan on sending it in .odt
> format. Is there a law in Israel, such as there is in many European
> countries, that states that Israeli agencies must accept
> standards-compliant formats such as odf? Am I being a menuval by
> sending in this format?

not evil, not silly, just quixotic, and self-defeating (you WILL have to
resend it).

RTF is sorta-kinda mid-way between de-facto and de-jure standrd. not as
proprietary as DOC, but not as esoteric (and unrecognized by gov't) as
ODT.

One day maybe, soon I hope, but not yet.

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