Re: [Obo-discuss] Mapping OBO <=> OWL

[Nicolas Le n. <le...@eb...>]

Suzanna Lewis wrote:
> Moving to Unicode is already on the feature request list (has been for
> some time). It just hasn't risen very high in priority. If you would
> like to push it higher we could. Shouldn't be too hard and I think it
> can be backwards compatible. Certainly it will be done by next summer,
> but if we need it sooner I'll see what can be done.

We have been begging for Unicode for years. SBO is encoded in Unicode, and 
when we started to export in OBO flat, we had to "correct" all the entries 
that contained 7bits-ASCII characters. At some point I was under the 
impression that OBOedit was able to accommodate it a bit. But maybe I was 
wrong.

Unicode would be awesome.

And official simple XML encoding would be even better ... (Not meant to 
start a flame-war. No answer needed :-)

-- 
Nicolas LE NOVERE, Computational Neurobiology, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome-Trust
Genome Campus, Hinxton CB101SD UK, Mob:+447833147074, Tel:+441223494521
Fax:468, Skype:n.lenovere, AIM:nlenovere, MSN:nle...@ho...
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lenov/, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur/