As reported by the WG Chair (and forwarded by the AD): Applications tested: Microsoft Word 2000 Tango Creator In Microsoft Word 2000 a text was created with the following five Unicode characters (and associated text): 00E7 (LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA) 0153 (LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE) 03B8 (GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA) 304B (HIRAGANA LETTER KA) 5BB6 (CJK 5BB6) The text was saved as a UTF-8 file (Word 2000 has this capability) and a GIF was created of what the screen looked like. The files were emailed as attachments. The recipient got the files, opened the UTF-8 file in Tango Creator, and it looked just as the ones sent. The text was retyped into Tango Creator (using French names for the Unicode characters btw), saved it as a UTF-8 file (which Tango Creator has been able to do all along), and emailed it and a screen shot as attachments. The text file was opened in Word 2000, and it looked just as expected. The testers believe that this is a good test of two independent, interoperable implementations working well together. It tests one-, two-, and three-octet UTF-8 (there still are no characters in the four-octet range). It also tests characters from different blocks of Unicode. On the Microsoft Word side, three different input methods were used to type the characters into Word 2000 (keyboard shortcuts, the Insert Symbol command, and the Japanese IME). On the Tango side, the normal keyboard, a Greek keyboard provided by Tango Creator and a direct Unicode entry method also provided by Creator were used. Testers: Paul Hoffman François Yergeau